Post-strike analysis

My analysis of today's LJ content strike can be found at:

http://steve.savitzky.net/Doc/Web/2008/missing_the_point/

Many of the people on my flist are respecting the strike (reluctantly in some cases); many more are ignoring it either because they haven't heard about it, or because they don't believe in either its goals, its methods, or both. A few have gone on to post the reasons why they are or are not respecting it. Almost all the arguments I've seen, on both sides of the debate, are missing the point entirely. I don't think even the originators of the strike understand it fully.

Bottom line: it was never intended as an economic weapon; it's merely a simple, reasonably painless way of sending a message both to LJ's Russian overlords, the public at large, and to ourselves. Of the three, the message to ourselves is perhaps the most important:

Leaving LJ isn't really a good option right now, because there's still a community here. If we could all pull up roots and transfer our blogs, our comments, and our network of friends over to someplace better, I think most of us would do it. I think we should be figuring out how to do just that, and not by moving to another centralized service that will eventually betray us in turn, but by building a decentralized community that can keep us in touch after we all take back control of our own content and "to our scattered servers go".

Some post-strike links I like: a post-strike analysis from technoshaman, and a good economic and cultural analysis by chipotle (by way of lysana). A striker returns...and responds to the critics by thatcrazycajun. (added 3/22: this post is also noted in comments to this post by beckyzoole.)