A thought.

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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.




And on a wholy unrelated Southland note: HOLY FUCKING COW, JOHN COOPER + REGINA KING FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN. *\o/*

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The thing that intrigues me most about DW at this juncture (besides being friendly to OpenID so I do meander over there now and then to read things) is their pickier flist setup, with the subscribing and the access--something I have wished for inarticulately, in the back of my head, to appear on LJ.

That said, I ease my twitches about my flist's collective DW boner with mental reminders that it's not even in open beta for like another week and a half or something. There is plenty of time to take a wait-and-see approach as to whether this sticks or falls in with all the other LJ clones made popular by fandom wank in the past couple years.

Why yes hello I do sometimes lurk on your journal. :D