Regarding Facebook and Twitter...

[gehayi]

All I can say is please, PLEASE don't crosspost any of your comments to my posts to Facebook or Twitter. If I wanted to post my stuff either place, I would do so. I don't want to. I would prefer to keep the three areas separate, thank you.

Tying Facebook and Twitter to LJ is one option that I know I never wanted, and that no one I know was asking

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[scrollgirl]

Dreamwidth has an awesome cross-posting function, so even if you move to DW (or your friends move to DW) you don't have to completely abandon your LJ.

[gehayi]

It doesn't have to be an either/or proposition. You can maintain a foot in both camps, so to speak. Many people do.

I'll send you your code in a private message, okay?

[lee_rowan]

I've got a dreamwidth account and it won't take much to get me active on it. Got a few invite codes, too, if anyone wants one.

[gehayi]

And you can easily import your entire LJ to Dreamwidth here:

https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/importer

It took three minutes for mine.

[ja_bucc]

Yeah... I first saw that new LJ "option" message yesterday and thought it was some kind of mistake.

I have Facebook people and LJ people separate--for the most part--for a reason. (I don't use Twitter.) I would NOT want anything cross-posted with links. I don't care if the private/locked post itself isn't viewable. O.o No... just... no.

I'll admit, though, that my Dreamwidth journal is covered in dust and cobwebs. :P

[gehayi]

Well, you can import your LJ and its content to Dreamwidth easily. I just did. Six years of posts, and it took three minutes.

https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/importer

[perseph]

"So locking your entries means nothing."

Still means that no one on who is not on your friends list can read the actual entry.

Posting a link to a locked entry or, worse, copying and pasting the text have always been options for those who don't respect privacy. This just makes it slightly faster to do the former.

I think the facebook/twitter options are stupid and absolutely will not be linking my accounts. But I also think the paranoia about them is a little unwarranted. Either people can trust the people on their friends list or not.

[gehayi]

It's a bit worse than that. If a person has crossposting enabled for her own journal, that means that her comments will automatically be crossposted from yours, whether she intended to crosspost from a locked post or not. Do I think that everyone opting in is effectively opting their entire friends-list in? I do not, and yet that's the situation that LJ has created.

Also, before the probability was simply that someone would crosspost to their own LJ. Now there are two little ticky boxes at the bottom of every comment...in an awkward place where it's REALLY easy to hit them by mistake, and as someone who has hands with a slight tremor, that's more than a possibility. And just by the boxes being there, LJ is encouraging people to crosspost.

[perseph]

"If a person has crossposting enabled for her own journal, that means that her comments will automatically be crossposted from yours

[gehayi]

I used ban_set to block pingback_bot from my journal and my comms.

If you download Greasemonkey from Firefox, there is a script to render the boxes invisible, effectively making LJ the way it was before this idiocy.

I did try, and couldn't select the options. Was not about to link my accounts to see what would happen if I did have crossposting enabled though!

Cleolinda shows how the Facebook and Twitter thing work here.

For my part, I have Facebook and Twitter options disabled as well as hidden. Until I used the script through Greasemonkey, I was still getting the ticky boxes on every comment I made--and yes, they were usable. Apparently, disabling the ticky boxes doesn't do much; the default setting is "opt-in."