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First on the agenda: it seems pingback is worse than previously suspected. Shutting down pingbacks on your own journal doesn't work, pingbacks happen both to and from locked posts according to murky and inconsistent conditions. Not very cool. Pingbacks work on blogs because if you're blogging on Wordpress or something you expect everything you write to be visible to the general public. It would take actual thought to make a pingback system that works in LJ's culture and nobody has bothered with that.

Second: the Facetwit debacle is not making me happy. I have some overlap between LJ and Facebook and don't want the two dragged together by a careless comment. I keep my Facebook locked down pretty tight as far as possible, but the way they change settings around stealthily doesn't give confidence.

Third: http://pebblerocker.dreamwidth.org/ is getting under way. I don't know yet how I'm going to handle things: do I want to hide all my LJ posts and use LJ just to comment on communities I'm in, or use Dreamwidth's crossposting feature to keep both journals active, or something else? Those who have no intention of moving to DW, please let me know so I can put you on a special reading filter and see your posts easily. I'm adding people on DW as I find them :)

And for anyone who would like to try Dreamwidth: invite codes available here.

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Being a tech-challenged soul, I won't be moving to DW unless all my flist does. I have an account, but seldom look at it.

I am in the same situation. It meant lots of frustration and pains to settle here. So far I don´t feel threatened, possibly due to my ignorance.My plain mind says that I have my friends here, so I stay here.

Me, too!! Oh, goody--that makes me feel better. I don't know how I'd switch to DW, anyway. I haven't even figured out the double posting thing, so I have little hope of moving all my stuff there.

*Hugs* What a relief for me to find a kindred spirit!:-)

*waves* I'll be here. :o)

Ihave a dreamwidth but don't use it, still hangng around lj for teh moment.

I still don't understand the pingback thing. Is it that people don't want others to know if they have linked to their post? or is it something worse than that?

As I understand it: imagine I've made a post about some sensitive topic and I've locked or filtered it so only trusted friends will read it, and in it I link to someone's public LJ post that has information relevant to my personal situation. Well, the pingback appears as a comment on that other person's public post, quoting a chunk of text from my sensitive flocked post, where anyone reading that person's LJ can see it.

If it's any consolation, that sort of thing seems to happen only if the post was originally public and I edit it to make it flocked. But given how confusing it all is -- and how sometimes we all make mistakes in posting, or change our minds about how private something is -- and how my account can still send pingbacks although I've disabled them -- I don't feel comfortable about posting anything on LJ now.

I'll be staying with LJ, at least in part, because, as of now, there's no crossover between communities (Such as

naarmamo), and it's through the comms that I make a lot of my connections. And I also have a paid LJ account (So I can have the scrapbook storage and lots of icons). But I may let my lj paid account die when its time runs out, and revert to free.... I'll have to figure out how to subscribe to my lj f'lister by subscription, if I do that, though.

However, 99.99% of all my posts are made via DreamWidth, and crossposted to LJ. I've now got my LJ friends locked, and my DreamWidth open.

At least, that's what I'm doing now.

I'm not moving to Dreamwidth unless absolutely forced to (my brain strongly dislikes change). I did make a couple accounts a long time ago, but don't use them.

I have no plans to move to Dreamwidth or anywhere else. I'm quite happy and settled in here at LJ - my friends are here and I am another one who is both tech challanged and dislikes change.