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vague sort-of update

May 27, 2008 12:27

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elfwreck May 27 2008, 18:51:57 UTC

Inksome, formerly Scribblit, is live. More details at tsfkas ("the site formerly known as scribblit").

I don't think it's The Answer, either. But it's *an* answer. A place for fandom, intending to have picture hosting and such, without the "ewww pr0n!" reaction of most online content hosts. (And, unlike IJ, ad-free, and lacking in offensive-to-some terminology.)

atrata May 27 2008, 19:21:20 UTC

Cool. I'll edit the post in a few minutes to reflect some of the comments coming in. I do feel Inksome is awesome and completely support-worthy, but I don't think that the fannish hordes are going to leave LJ for an LJ clone. I think a safe fannish space is only part of the issue. The people who don't feel threatened by various LJ policies aren't going to leave for anything less than The Ultimate Awesome, and no LJ clone is going to provide that. (Sadly.)

treewishes May 27 2008, 20:38:31 UTC

Why do you think an LJ clone on a fan-owned server wouldn't be shiny enough? Once we're there, we can make the features fan worthy. But I think getting a space of our own is The Ultimate Awesome.

atrata May 27 2008, 20:54:27 UTC

Well, pulling up stakes and moving elsewhere is a pretty big deal, both in terms of actual time involved, and also emotionally. Many of us are very attached to LJ. We are here every day. We've made very close friends. It's home. And no matter how much disrespectful LJ is of fandom, there is a fairly large segment of fandom that doesn't feel threatened and doesn't see the point of putting the effort into a move. There's kind of this sense that LJ is mostly down on HP fen, so if they're not HP fen and they don't write that icky incestuous non-con chan, why spend the time and make the investment in moving to a place that's just like this one, only not as cool? I just really believe that for fandom as a whole to move, it has to move someplace new, and an LJ clone is never going to be new. Not really ( ... )

snakeling May 27 2008, 19:11:24 UTC

synecdochic means to create a fork of LJ (not a clone! a honest-to-goodness fork!) Nothing official, and actually so far it's been mostly alluded to, but if you want more info, you could have a look at the poll she put up some time ago.

atrata May 27 2008, 19:21:49 UTC

Ah, yeah, I do remember seeing that. Thanks. I'll edit this post in a few minutes.

odditycollector May 27 2008, 19:14:02 UTC

What about the Firefox project? Don't know if it'll be any better, but it sounds neat.

atrata May 27 2008, 19:24:02 UTC

So it does. Thanks for the link.

blonde_cecile May 27 2008, 23:37:26 UTC

I'm still hopeful about Inksome, myself. Perhaps once it opens free accounts and maybe gets it's own nice layout, some people will at least go try it out. We'll see, I guess.

sasuko May 28 2008, 02:40:46 UTC

You know, I've been wondering about this for a while, and I thought it would be really cool if we could have something like a wordpress version of livejournal (that is linked)? The reason for it is simple ( ... )