A thought.

[hackthis_archive]

My issue with The Great Dreamwidth Migration Or Something Like It, is not that people are going, or not going. If you go, have at it, i've got an OpenID, I'll stop by -- if you stay, I'll see you around. It's not that I've been offered a code or haven't been offered a code. I do think there is something a little Supply and Demandish about it, in that the fewer codes there are the more people want them and the more it becomes almost a status symbol, and then other people want them because they see other people wanting them. But that's not my point either. I am neither pro-Dreamwidth nor picking up the pitchforks. I haven't done the homework, I haven't tested the application. It could be the best thing since the Notes App on my IPhone, I dunno. I am not making any call or pissing in somebody's sandbox.

The issue I have is that there seems to be this immense pressure, not from one person or even one direction, but just a overall press that 'Everyone Must Go!' like the house is going to burn down around us if we don't get out now. Like if you don't get out of LJ now you're going to be left behind, and that, to me, that's just not cool. That, to me, takes a lot of fun out of something that indeed might be great. But, you know, that's just my opinion.




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Comments

[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Weird. I don't see pressure going on at all. Of course that might be because I can't wait to open up shop over there, and thus the many "I'm soandso on Dreamwidth" don't have any peer pressure effect at all on me.

Here's what I think will happen: some people will migrate. Lots of people will crosspost and crossread. Some people will stay on LJ. And depending on where the new communities get opened, it might eventually happen that fandom will grow bigger on DW than it is on LJ.

With that in mind, I think that I'll crosspost for as long as there are people on both platforms I want to follow. This is because despite still loving LJ architecture, I really hate the people in charge. I don't trust them at all, and have been very uncomfortable giving them my credit card number once a year, and putting my life as well as my fannish activities onto their servers. But I did, because there was no alternative. But I don't for a second think that everybody else should mistrust them, too, and thus hurry away to DW.

Even for me, it's going to be hard to leave LJ behind even a little bit, I've been here for seven years, posted 5000+ entries here, a lot of my own personal history is in my comments. But I will move, in the very least with full crossposting. I'll also be around here, though, because some of my best friends won't move, and that's okay.

As I said before, I didn't see any pressuring going on at all. Is the pressure you're talking about merely people posting their account names, or have people actually been saying that they're moving to DW and anybody who doesn't move along will be left behind? Or worse?

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

My issue is not with people migrating for whatever reason: unhappiness with LJ, the desire for something new, what have you. If this is indeed what people have been waiting for after Insane Journal or Greatest Journal, then great. More power to them, If this is the second coming, bring it on. But I am not the first person to comment on this snowballing sense of "If you don't get on the train now, you'll be left at the station" and I doubt I'll be the last. If you're not sensing the same thing, it may simply be down to a different POV or a different reading list.

[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

I'm convinced. I think it's actually a problematic that this is going on, and just from reading the other comments I can see that it is. I can only imagine that anybody deliberately trying to incite an inner circle / elite vibe is either relatively new in fandom/online communities or malicious. These things never end well. >_>

Train leaving the station, scoff, it's not even in open beta yet! And it's an LJ clone! What can there even be *there* to miss, yet? Deliberate peer pressure is not something that's cool.