Tinfoil hats and Putin's comin' ...

[ed_rex]

Clouds so swift, Putin comin' on
But I ain't goin' nowhere ...

"Right now, Senator, for us to control all of the airspace in Syria would require us to go to war, against Syria and Russia. [long pause] That's a pretty fundamental decision that certainly I'm not going to make." - General Joseph F. Dunford Jr., Chair Joint Chiefs of Staff, to the

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[dewline]

It's true. The servers have moved. A quick look at the Flagfox add-on to Firefox confirms it to my own eyes.

And you may have a point or two.

And yet...

And yet ...

[ed_rex]

Well, I'm certainly not saying you shouldn't make DW your primary blog host if you're more comfortable with it. They certainly seem like good people, and it's not owned by a faceless corporation, Russian or otherwise. (If I didn't think so, I wouldn't be paying for a premium membership there as well as here.)

[abomvubuso]

So tell me about this DreamWidth thingy, is it good as a blog platform?

Yes, indeed it is

[ed_rex]

Dreamwidth.org. It's a fork of the LiveJournal code, so basically the same in terms of functionality (though it hasn't implemented much in the way of photo-hosting and they won't, for security reasons, apparently, allow Tweets to automatically pollute populate one's journal. It does, on the other hand, pretty flawlessly cross-post from DW to LJ.

The folks running it seem to be big into things like free speech, so I like 'em for that, and they're good about communicating on tech issues, too.

Whether or not you want to run away from the Russians, I certainly recommend it as a secondary and/or primary platform and as a back-up.

Re: Yes, indeed it is

[abomvubuso]

Sounds promising. What about that photo hosting? They don't have Scrapbook galleries or what? Can I store my pictures elsewhere and embed them into DW posts like here on LJ?

Re: Yes, indeed it is

[ed_rex]

So far as I remember, they don't "do" photos. You can definitely embed images from elsewhere. Most of mine are hosted on my own site, with a few coming from my Twitter or Facebook accounts. (I gave up on using LJ's frankly cumbersome system years ago.)

I have had a friend who just switched complain that his videos were broken when imported into DW. I don't remember that being a problem with mine, but maybe I should have a look ...