Different strokes for different folks, I guess. ;)
I never thought to jump ship, either, and no matter how many FAIL LJ did (and over the years, it failed. A lot. A lotlotlot), I still stayed loyal. I don't like many things about DW, either, but what it boils down to now is, which is the lesser of the evils? And for me? It's not LJ. Not anymore.
As I said, I'll keep posting fandom stuff (let's face it, the kdrama community is already small here. It's practically nonexistant on DW) and if lj fixes this huge breach of privacy (Facebook has NO respect for privacy, that's a known fact), I may reenable comments. If it doesn't and if LJ keeps failing, oh well, at least I'm all set over there and it'll take just the click of a button to delete the journal.
The main problems I have with this features are 1)facebots. Once allowed, they MIGHT harvest info, even info that are NOT visible to registered users OR friends (say, your name? where you live? your credit card number if you've ever bought stuff from the LJ store, like I did) unless you specifically told them. So I'm not talking aobout flocked entries only. When I signed up 6 years ago and when LJ updated its ToS, nowhere on the registration form or tos was said that bots would be allowed on this site. And I'm paying for this? Why? o_0 I'm afraid the damage is already done. Even if you delete the journal now, your data might have already been harvested so there's no way to protect THAT info anymore. If you pardon my analogy, as of now, LJ is like a house with all its doors and windows wide open, it's practically inviting all sorts of people and things to go inside.
2) I don't see any immediate huge difference between ability of anyone who has malicious intent and has access to my locked entries to copy-and-paste and to re-post on Facebook/Twitter. POint. That might happen, but for me, it's different. Leaving aside the accidental mistake (my actual main fear), the difference between the copy&paste vs repost/crosspost is that while when a troll/friend-turned-into-enemy/whatever copy and pastes your flocked content, they're eventually found out (ofen sooner rather than later) and the community tend to defend the person who got trolled and shun the troll (and that's not a common event for that very reason) with the repost/crosspost feature trolling is a lot easier and there'd be no way to expose the troll because hey, if the troll says it was an actual mistake, there's no way to prove it otherwise, right? Also? that feature actually legitimize and favors the reposting of flocked content. You're right, there's no other way to protect oneself than not posting at all, but...this is now what LJ ToS said. LJ's strongest point WAS security, that's what made it popular in the first place. it wasn't the comms. It wasn't the layouts and moodthemes. It was the security. It was the possibility to talk "behind closed doors" about anything and be (fairly) sure it stayed that way (isn't that LJ unspoken code of behaviour?). And guess what? Security at DW? Is even better, it's a lot more customizable and I SO didn't expect that. I already ranted on my LJ about this whole debacle, which FYI was the last straw, it wasn't the ONLY reason for getting a dw, and why I'm posting my RL post there so I'll stop now. /rant
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Date: 2010-09-07 07:10 pm (UTC)I never thought to jump ship, either, and no matter how many FAIL LJ did (and over the years, it failed. A lot. A lotlotlot), I still stayed loyal. I don't like many things about DW, either, but what it boils down to now is, which is the lesser of the evils? And for me? It's not LJ. Not anymore.
As I said, I'll keep posting fandom stuff (let's face it, the kdrama community is already small here. It's practically nonexistant on DW) and if lj fixes this huge breach of privacy (Facebook has NO respect for privacy, that's a known fact), I may reenable comments. If it doesn't and if LJ keeps failing, oh well, at least I'm all set over there and it'll take just the click of a button to delete the journal.
The main problems I have with this features are
1)facebots. Once allowed, they MIGHT harvest info, even info that are NOT visible to registered users OR friends (say, your name? where you live? your credit card number if you've ever bought stuff from the LJ store, like I did) unless you specifically told them. So I'm not talking aobout flocked entries only. When I signed up 6 years ago and when LJ updated its ToS, nowhere on the registration form or tos was said that bots would be allowed on this site. And I'm paying for this? Why? o_0 I'm afraid the damage is already done. Even if you delete the journal now, your data might have already been harvested so there's no way to protect THAT info anymore. If you pardon my analogy, as of now, LJ is like a house with all its doors and windows wide open, it's practically inviting all sorts of people and things to go inside.
2) I don't see any immediate huge difference between ability of anyone who has malicious intent and has access to my locked entries to copy-and-paste and to re-post on Facebook/Twitter. POint. That might happen, but for me, it's different. Leaving aside the accidental mistake (my actual main fear), the difference between the copy&paste vs repost/crosspost is that while when a troll/friend-turned-into-enemy/whatever copy and pastes your flocked content, they're eventually found out (ofen sooner rather than later) and the community tend to defend the person who got trolled and shun the troll (and that's not a common event for that very reason) with the repost/crosspost feature trolling is a lot easier and there'd be no way to expose the troll because hey, if the troll says it was an actual mistake, there's no way to prove it otherwise, right? Also? that feature actually legitimize and favors the reposting of flocked content. You're right, there's no other way to protect oneself than not posting at all, but...this is now what LJ ToS said. LJ's strongest point WAS security, that's what made it popular in the first place. it wasn't the comms. It wasn't the layouts and moodthemes. It was the security. It was the possibility to talk "behind closed doors" about anything and be (fairly) sure it stayed that way (isn't that LJ unspoken code of behaviour?). And guess what? Security at DW? Is even better, it's a lot more customizable and I SO didn't expect that. I already ranted on my LJ about this whole debacle, which FYI was the last straw, it wasn't the ONLY reason for getting a dw, and why I'm posting my RL post there so I'll stop now. /rant