I've just had an email from lj about renewing my subscription, after several years when they emailed to say that they were extending paid ljs for free, what with the whole leaders-of-their-country-having-attacked-another-country, and clearly deciding that they really couldn't ask us to try and pay them money
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Facebook is awful, and I'm also not comfortable using my real name for public fan interactions. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Dreamwidth is a bit clunkier than LJ, but seems like the best alternative, if we have to move. I have been crossposting there since the invasion for the people who don't feel they can use LJ anymore.
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My trouble with Dreamwidth (apart from similar moral issues about money going to support a government which does things I don't like), is that it doesn't host pictures, which makes most of the stuff I do on lj - including Dialj - almost impossible....
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People on this thread keep saying that Dreamwidth doesn’t host pictures, but it does. It’s just clunky.
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Very clunky.
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I suppose there is also Reddit.
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I have no idea about Discord - I've heard people talk alot about it, but never had a chance to look into it. Do people get their own webspace like on lj? Does it host pictures?
Dreamwidth is all well and good, but it just doesn't work well enough for me - my lj-ing (rather surprisingly to me) is picture-heavy, and Dreamwidth doesn't host pictures. I've been through the whole host-them-elsewhere-and-link thing, as we all have, and that works until a company like Photobucket says "No more, give us all your money or you lose your pics". If I had to (if Lj vanished entirely) I'd probably go there (although if we're talking morals get Guantanamo Bay shut down, stop imposing moral regulations on overseas charities who need help, don't vote ( ... )
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