Two thoughts on Livejournal

[andrewducker]

1) If you are the kind of person who appears on Livejournal once every six months to say "I keep meaning to post on Livejournal more, but it's dead nowadays" then YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. People will post more if they see their friends posting more. If you don't care whether people post more, or have nothing to say, then fair enough. If you want to make a positive difference then start using LJ to write about what you've been up to, or comment on your friends journals when they say things, to let them know it's worth their while continuing.

2) On a more personal note, if I see someone saying something that was difficult for them to say, or which is due a sympathetic response, and they haven't already had a sympathetic response from anyone, then I'll generally make thirty seconds to let them know they've been heard. Conversely, if they've already had a bunch of comments, and they aren't someone I'm good friends with, then I won't see much point in piling on (depending on how busy I am, and the nature of what they're posting about, obviously).

Comments

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

The deliberate irony being that you posted this on Dreamwidth first.

[andrewducker]

I like having a backup.

(And would frankly rather support the approach of Dreamwidth, but moving people over there is a pain).

What I mostly object to is people saying "I wish LJ was busier" while not posting anything apart from complaints that it's quiet over here. Either post more, or shut up!

(Them, not you.)

[avatar.livejournal.com]

Is there an easy way to move all your posts with their security settings over to Dreamwidth? I've seen bits and pieces but never a good guide on this.

[andrewducker]

Sure is:
https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/importer

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

doesn't matter.
these posts have more responses here than there, and as such are almost certainly more read here.

Similarly, the popular link posts are collected elsewhere and auto-posted. It makes no difference at all - people still read them here.

What matters is not where the posts originate, but that they *are here*, and get read here and responded to here.

Andy has been the only reason I read LJ for roughly a year. I don't post purely because I'm deeply uncomfortable with long form blogging. I keep thinking I should have another crack at it, but this never happens.

most of my online existence now happens on G+

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I followed a couple of friends to G+, but my feed there went dead fairly quickly. And I remain here on LJ, at least until the Russians turn the lights off anyway. :)

[0olong.livejournal.com]

I enjoy G+, and probably look at it slightly more than LJ at this point. It's largely made worthwhile by Jessica Pierce and Ed Yong, in my experience...

[avatar.livejournal.com]

If your G+ feed goes dead, find more interesting people and follow them.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Sir has hit the metallic wood-fixing device firmly upon its upper striking surface.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

This :)

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I find it interesting how LJs brand of personal thought style journalling has largely fallen out of interest. It's like people don't really want to get to know folks anymore, they'd much rather have throwaway one-liners and jokes and things.

[zz]

that's what *she* said.

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

I would love to have posted more this year but it has been such a head fuck in so many ways and it's just gotten worse. This combined with the attention spam of the proverbial goldfish (thank you prescription medication) and reading/writing longish entries just doesn't happen. I'm back at the stage of only reading the first couple of paragraphs of anything before my eyes glaze over and I give up. Oh to be well enough, physically and mentally, to interact with people normally, for varying definitions of normal.