the obligatory comment on the latest LJ annoyance
I will never link an entry or comment, in this or any other journal, to Facebook or Twitter. I would fervently entreat you not to link any comment you make in my journal to Facebook or Twitter.
This post links to a greasemonkey script you can use to make the buttons disappear in your own browser--but be mindful that someone else looking at your journal would still be able to see them and choose to post her/his comment to Facebook or Twitter if so possessed by the anti-privacy demons of doom, so it's really only an aesthetic solution.
Also in today's "LJ plays fast and loose with privacy" news, note that the pingback feature does not respect locked posts. I originally (back when they were available before) had enabled pingbacks because I think it's vaguely interesting to see where I'm linked. But I didn't realize then (or maybe this is a feature of the newly reintroduced pingbacks?) that if you link to another post in your own locked post, and you and the linkee both have pingbacks enabled, that person gets a notification, along with the text surrounding the link. It's not difficult to think of situations where this could be awkward, especially if you're in the habit of complaining behind flock about posts that you link to. For the record, I am not in the habit of complaining about other LJ posts behind flock (I don't think? I've not taken a survey of my locked posts for this), but I've disabled pingbacks nonetheless.
I admit this is the first thing that LJ has done that has made me really seriously consider moving primarily to Dreamwidth and using my LJ as a secondary, mostly reading journal (which is what I currently use the DW journal for). There are still things I don't like about that idea--it seems like a lot of reading redundancy might be involved, plus my people are still largely LJ-based, and I'm a little confused about how things like flocking and especially posting on filters would work if I were cross-posting to different lists. (Actually, DW people, the filter question, in particular, is what has prevented me from thus far uploading my LJ to DW: what happens to anything I posted on a filter in LJ? I don't do that a lot, but I do from time to time, and I'd want to preserve the integrity of those filters if I move the content to DW.) But if LJ is going to buy into the going social media philosophy that we should all share everything with everyone all the time, and that all our various online identities should be amalgamated, well, I'm willing to put up with the annoyance of transitioning to Dreamwidth as a primary platform, I think.
Incidentally, I've got lots of Dreamwidth codes, if anyone who doesn't already have one would like a DW journal.
This post links to a greasemonkey script you can use to make the buttons disappear in your own browser--but be mindful that someone else looking at your journal would still be able to see them and choose to post her/his comment to Facebook or Twitter if so possessed by the anti-privacy demons of doom, so it's really only an aesthetic solution.
Also in today's "LJ plays fast and loose with privacy" news, note that the pingback feature does not respect locked posts. I originally (back when they were available before) had enabled pingbacks because I think it's vaguely interesting to see where I'm linked. But I didn't realize then (or maybe this is a feature of the newly reintroduced pingbacks?) that if you link to another post in your own locked post, and you and the linkee both have pingbacks enabled, that person gets a notification, along with the text surrounding the link. It's not difficult to think of situations where this could be awkward, especially if you're in the habit of complaining behind flock about posts that you link to. For the record, I am not in the habit of complaining about other LJ posts behind flock (I don't think? I've not taken a survey of my locked posts for this), but I've disabled pingbacks nonetheless.
I admit this is the first thing that LJ has done that has made me really seriously consider moving primarily to Dreamwidth and using my LJ as a secondary, mostly reading journal (which is what I currently use the DW journal for). There are still things I don't like about that idea--it seems like a lot of reading redundancy might be involved, plus my people are still largely LJ-based, and I'm a little confused about how things like flocking and especially posting on filters would work if I were cross-posting to different lists. (Actually, DW people, the filter question, in particular, is what has prevented me from thus far uploading my LJ to DW: what happens to anything I posted on a filter in LJ? I don't do that a lot, but I do from time to time, and I'd want to preserve the integrity of those filters if I move the content to DW.) But if LJ is going to buy into the going social media philosophy that we should all share everything with everyone all the time, and that all our various online identities should be amalgamated, well, I'm willing to put up with the annoyance of transitioning to Dreamwidth as a primary platform, I think.
Incidentally, I've got lots of Dreamwidth codes, if anyone who doesn't already have one would like a DW journal.