I'm moving, but you don't have to.

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My public posts from Dreamwidth are now syndicated at 403_dw. I'll be posting to there from now on, and those of you who prefer to stick with LJ can comment at Dreamwidth through the magic of OpenID. (If you're concerned about not being able to read my extremely rare locked posts, let me know and I'll be happy to grant access to your LJ account.) I still

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Advertising is a part of my concern ("plus" users see advertisements everywhere, even on the journals of paid users, and they're now the default account type), but only part. I'm tired of the site that hosts most of the written record of my life being tossed around like a hot potato every few years, and then the learning curve of the new owners as they figure out what the user-base will and won't put up with. (DW's owners plan to keep it a small business, pretty much indefinately, and that's fine by me.) I'm also tired of being "friended" every few weeks by Russian spammers, which never happened before the site was sold to SUP. (They seem to vanish after another few weeks, probably when a human realizes the addbot collected people who don't speak Russian. But that doesn't make it any less annoying.)

I also really really like the differentiation between people I subscribe to and people I grant access to. And not calling it "friends" is an added plus, because applying that term to people I'm not actually friends with but like to read (ursulav, for example) weirds my social programming.