Still pandalicious

[owlectomy]

I have wanted to get a paid LiveJournal account and get polls and all the neat extra features for the longest time. Unfortunately, every time I had nearly decided myself in favor of a paid account, LJ did something ridiculous to make me decide I wasn't giving them any money. I've been quite impressed with DreamWidth and their ability to not do ridiculous things that make me decide I'm not giving them any money. So from here forward I've got myself an account; I'm going to be cross-posting to both journals and leaving comments open in both places.

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

Woooo, welcome over! (or, welcome over more fully, whatever!)

[raanve]

Cosign!

[sasha_feather]

Woohoo! Welcome!

[laceblade]

I know you just started cross-posting, but are you able to predict which place you might get the most comments at? If posts are identical in both locations, that's how I decide where to read people.

[owlectomy]

So far it's tilted slightly towards DW, and I think it may keep on doing so.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me still comment at lj. I'm too old to learn another interface so I'll never get a DW acct of my own, and I find openID a pain.

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- as much as I like Dreamwidth (and hate the Flash ads that LJ is using now) openID is a pain, and having to log into yet another account to post a throwaway one-liner comment is a pain.

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd say being on LJ since 2000 or so counts as staying still for a little while, no?

I don't know, I think a lot of the Facebook hate and Twitter hate misses the point. It's not that a person thinks what they had for breakfast or where they went shopping is inherently interesting -- just like it's not inherently interesting when people say "How are you?" or make conversation about the weather. It's the Internet equivalent of these conversations that are meaningless in formal terms, but whose real meaning is just that moment of social contact, that recognition of "Hi, I see you there, I'm glad that you're around." I don't think meaningfulness is necessarily an appropriate standard to hold internet conversations to.