Pondering again
Nov. 1st, 2010 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayI am, yet again, pondering whether to transfer my posts from LJ over to Dreamwidth and use that as my main posting platform. I could then put my LJ onto the unpaid service and pay DW instead (I need my icons!), with the advantage that I'd be sending my money to an organisation who's goals and philosophy I agree with rather than a money-grubbing corporation out to make a buck off everything I do.
Except...
A lot of the journals I follow on LJ aren't over here yet and giving up my paid status on LJ would mean ads. I hate ads.
Argh! I've been going back and forth on this one for months with no resolution. I can't justify paying for both, but I hate ads enough to dislike doing my LJ-reading with them right there. And if I'm using DW as my main posting platform, I want to support their work by having a paid account. Watch me continue to be indecisive :-(
In other news, I wrote and didn't post four things last week. I probably need to get better and finishing posts and posting them. Otherwise the entire debate in the first three paragraphs of this is pointless :-)
Except...
A lot of the journals I follow on LJ aren't over here yet and giving up my paid status on LJ would mean ads. I hate ads.
Argh! I've been going back and forth on this one for months with no resolution. I can't justify paying for both, but I hate ads enough to dislike doing my LJ-reading with them right there. And if I'm using DW as my main posting platform, I want to support their work by having a paid account. Watch me continue to be indecisive :-(
In other news, I wrote and didn't post four things last week. I probably need to get better and finishing posts and posting them. Otherwise the entire debate in the first three paragraphs of this is pointless :-)
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Date: 2010-11-02 07:13 am (UTC)-Posting things
-Posting things which can be read by the people you'd like them to be readable by
-Reading things other people have posted
-Other web2.0ish considerations I've missed
Prioritise, establish which platform best meets priorities, you know where I'm going with this.
As long as the important stuff keeps cross-posting to LJ, or if the few other people I like to keep up with all move to DW at once then that'd be perfect for me. It's not like I post much of anything you might want to read. (I may manage an update about huge stuff going on at work in a few days but I'm sure you could safely skip that!)
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Date: 2010-11-02 09:52 pm (UTC)I've come to the conclusion that I'll continue cross-posting everything to LJ and reading my f-list through LJ (blocking ads when my paid time comes to an end). It seems like the option that allows me to put my money where I feel most comfortable and continue doing the things that I want to do.
I'm just debating whether to allow comments on cross-posted entries or push people to comment on DW using their LJ for an Open ID.