preserving the LJ emergency network
Mar. 7th, 2011 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmCan we talk about something?
I don't want to be all, "LJ is dying" but it's certainly slowing down/transmuting/something.
There's the splintering/relocating/mirroring to Dreamwidth and other services; the increased popularity of Twitter and FB amongst LJ people who used to say they didn't care for such; the fandom focus on Tumblr and A03; and people like me fleeing for their own domains.
Yet, one thing LJ has been remarkable for is the people helping people thing, because it engenders (and has engendered over time) relationships that make need and veracity somewhat easier to verify.
So how and how much we use LJ is changing. In the face of that, how do we preserve the "help solve a scary problem" factor in a way that's meaningful, decentralized, participatory, and based on networks of trust and expertise?
I don't want to be all, "LJ is dying" but it's certainly slowing down/transmuting/something.
There's the splintering/relocating/mirroring to Dreamwidth and other services; the increased popularity of Twitter and FB amongst LJ people who used to say they didn't care for such; the fandom focus on Tumblr and A03; and people like me fleeing for their own domains.
Yet, one thing LJ has been remarkable for is the people helping people thing, because it engenders (and has engendered over time) relationships that make need and veracity somewhat easier to verify.
So how and how much we use LJ is changing. In the face of that, how do we preserve the "help solve a scary problem" factor in a way that's meaningful, decentralized, participatory, and based on networks of trust and expertise?
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Date: 2011-03-09 09:28 pm (UTC)If it helps, the primary reason cited was the adver-bombing of LJ, as seen by non-paid, and non-permanent users. People who don't understand how to set up things like Firefox with no-script and adblock and a couple other anti-advert things will be much more likely to give up and go elsewhere, especially if they get roped into active groups on facebook or other places instead.
(I'm one of the many LJ holdouts, but then I have a perm account too, so I theoretically don't have to worry about adverts once I log in. I use firefox because it keeps the web saaaane.)