Technical note on Twitter / Facebook crossposting and pingbacks

[bwinter]

Because LJ is a dolt again:

- Pingbacks means that if you have pingbacks turned on and user X has pingbacks turned on, once user X posts a public link to your entry, you get an automatic comment to this entry telling you they're done it. Nothing more. A poor man's Google Alert for your LJ's URL

Comments

[wottie]

But it's automatically off, right? as in as long as I don't actively turn it on, it won't try and do anything? I really don't understand why LJ feels the need to connect with places like Facebook when it knows it's nothing like Facebook.

[bwinter]

Pingbacks, alas, are automatically on. Crossposting is off, but you still get to see the greyed-out tickyboxes, which is an absolute bother if you do the Type-Tab-Enter workflow for commenting.

[alice_montrose]

Thanks for this. I turned the rest off, too. Still... annoying.

[bwinter]

Very much so :/

[amelia_petkova]

Thanks for the info. I saw the banner and said, "What the hell is this?"

*sigh* I wish social technologies would stop automatically opting us into everything.

[bwinter]

That would be nice, no? And no more interface changes without an option to turn stuff off.