Signal boost: more LJ crap

[mdlbear]

LiveJournal's new sneaky trick -> LiveJournal's latest misguided attempt to make a quick buck. -> No Opt In, No Ads

What they're doing is redirecting links to outboundlink.me, which adds an affiliate code and sends you back to, e.g. Amazon with the affiliate bucks going to LJ. Sleazy, and both a privacy and a security risk. Not to mention a violation of my copyright.

... So I now have, after much delay, an account on Dreamwidth (mdlbear, of course), though I haven't made use of it yet. I'm not going to abandon LJ -- most of my friends are still here, and I have a permanent account. And I'm not going to move my primary blog to DW; eventually they'll both be cross-posted to from someplace completely under my control, probably under steve.savitzky.net.

Comments

[kyrielle]

I actually am posting all my stuff on Dreamwidth, and cross-posting to LJ. I have the footer turned off and the comments enabled during cross-posting, which makes the entire procedure invisible to my LJ friends. It does involve trusting Dreamwidth with my LJ password, but I do trust them, substantially more than I do LJ.

[mdlbear]

That's one option; the other is to be more selective and only post longer articles (for example) on DW (with cross-posting to LJ), and leave the "done yesterday" posts on LJ only.