| LJ doesn't want us. Time to make other plans. |
[Aug. 3rd, 2007|09:05 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | grumpy | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | stuck outside of Lodi with those Memphis blues again | ] |
I've come to believe that LJ doesn't want to deal with sexuality and those parts of fandom that are sexually explicit. They'd rather do sponsorship deals with Pepsi and Citibank. and sell the attention of their users. Anything that would scare off corporations is simply not worth it to them, despite all the financial support they've had from fandom over the years.
They don't want us any more. The only power we have is as consumers, the power to take our money elsewhere. It's time to start. I'm cross-posting everything from now on, and making new communities on other journals. I bought a permanent InsaneJournal account ($30, why not) and will be happy to make syndicated feeds from LJ journals and comms. I'm going to support fan efforts to make new systems of community and archives that we can never lose. This is why:
- Despite all assurances that the Abuse Team would warn people of any problems with their content, and allow them to make changes, at least two fan artists have been summarily booted off of LJ. Their journals and scrapbooks are inaccessible, their posts everywhere are removed, not just for the offending journal, but for other journals with the same email contact address. This includes paid and permanent journals. And to add insult to injury, their names aren't even marked with a strike -- so
![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) ponderosa121 and elaboration just look... weird.
- LJ user stormcloude got a response to her question about the rationale for deleting the journals. It comes down to a self-selected and anonymous group of LJ staffers and Abuse Team members making judgments about whether the artistic seriousness of the work outweighs the sexual nature. FOR THE LOSE.
- As of now, I'm boycotting the term "suspended" -- if a journal is suddenly and permanently removed, that's "deleted by LJ". Suspended generally means a temporary thing.
- Remember when I said they'd add a "report abuse" button to every post? They're doing it now. It's a link at the bottom next to "Be a Support Volunteer"
- And while we're at it: paid users now get to see ads, if they're sponsored by corporations (Pepsi, wow) the form of moods or journal styles. And get this: they're animated, so if you're like me, you'll hate them intensely. Firefox tip: press the Escape key after the page loads and all animations will stop.
- OMG, it goes on... LJ has warned a deleterious commentator (laughing at badfic, like Mystery Science Theater) that they must remove their post due to a copyright complaint. A HP fic author claimed copyright on her stuff was being violated (fair use, everyone!), and the only way the OP can deal with it is to file a counter-claim which will disclose their name and address.
- elaboration's posts about being deleted: 1, 2, 3. She doesn't draw underage sex, she drew adult Weasly twins wanking each other. ponderosa121 who has drawn underage sex, has some thoughts on being deleted. zenfu, who does shota art, was also deleted, and misses his/her friends.
- synecdochic [who (ETA used to work for LJ) and is also a fan]blames US law for all this. No mention of warnings. No comments allowed.
- Useful communities: Fandom Directory on IJ, fandom_tossed on GJ innocence_jihad on LJ, 07refugees on IJ
- How to syndicate journals to to multiple services
- elke_tanzer has some great thoughts about what to do next. The most unexpected one -- make sure all communities have multiple moderators in case one gets deleted.
- shaggirl has a list of alternate journaling systems, also a poll on fan support for a new system
- almostnever has directions for mass-adding friends on any LJ-clone system
- fandom_flies is a LJ community to coordinate all efforts to try to create a LJ-clone run by fans for fans.
- twocorpses is starting an LJ clone
- rahalia suggests signing up at the Directorium wiki.
ETA: one last good link: shushu addresses objections to leaving LJ
Wow this sucks. I'm msilverstar.greatestjournal.com and msilverstar.insanejournal.com and msilverstar.journalfen.net. See you there. |
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| Comments: |
Thank you for linking this on your LJ - I bought an account yesterday but it appears that one can't search for usernames (in fact the whole search function seems to be kaput at the moment), so I started with your profile and followed the hyperlinks.
Happy to. *clings to you*
Just as a note: when you move your fic here, you should probably post them backdated, or it kinda overwhelms your friends' friendslists.
I will. I apologise for the GJ upload in June - by the time I realised I should have been backdating I was already halfway through DDD, and it didn't make sense to stop then. But I'll backdate everything here to June or earlier.
It's cool, but I figure if I don't tell you, you won't know, right?
Let's hope they can hold up under the onslaught. | |
