Uproar on the internet

[phoebesmum]

Again? you ask. Yes, again, I say, and I also say, good lord, I was out of the house for what, two hours, and see what happened? But in this case, I think it's certainly worth taking a look at what's going on (Amazon.com appear to be being utter and absolute homophobic arseholes, to put it in a nutshell), and a good place to start is at meta_writer and work

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[leiascully]

Ah, the internet. Making kerfuffle much more efficient since whenever it was invented. Also porn.

I am hearing so much about DreamWidth lately. Hmmm.

[phoebesmum]

I know, and mostly I keep my head down and keep quiet when there's kerfuffle, but when it's homophobic kerfuffle I do feel obliged to stick my head out of the metaphorical foxhole.

I don't know what DreamWidth is going to amount to, but one might as well be in on it from the start. Currently I have one person on my not-a-friends-list over there, so clearly I need to start collecting invite codes and asking my friends to come and play. (I wonder if the invite-codes-giver-outer would consider that a good enough reason to let me have some?)

[realpestilence]

*polishes your halo*

[phoebesmum]

Shiny!!!

[phoebesmum]

It's a new and potentially more fan-friendly LJ equivalent - DreamWidth.

[freesnowcone]

Oooh Dreamwidth! Lucky! I think? I dunno, there's a big thing about Dreamwidth being awesome. Is it awesome? Should I start salivating over it?

[phoebesmum]

I dunno if it's awesome or if anyone will use it or what's going to happen - god, I wish I could see into the future, 'cos for a kick-off I wouldn't have ended up here - but I like to be in on the ground floor of things, so I was dead pleased to find the invite code - plus it proves it's not just for BNF BFFs, 'cos you couldn't be much more of a fannish outsider than I am. It's here, if you want to take a look at it.

[flippet]

I'm made of fail apparently, because I read this yesterday, and didn't understand a word of it

[phoebesmum]

I use Amazon as a back-up at work. There's a database over here called Nielsens, which is effectively books in print in the UK, but it occasionally lies, and, on other occasion, goes completely barking mad - so if, for example, it's telling me a book is available/unavailable and I have reason to doubt, I generally look and see what Amazon says. (Yes, I could phone the supplier, but I hate talking on the phone. A bit of a disadvantage in customer services, that.)

LJ hasn't always been entirely fandom-friendly - it's had any number of odd hissy fits, including the infamous wave of account strike-outs - and one of the main aims of DW is that it will be fandom-friendly. We'll see how that plays out.

[flippet]

(Yes, I could phone the supplier, but I hate talking on the phone. A bit of a disadvantage in customer services, that.)

Heh. Me too. Thank god for email, you know? I'm always a titch cheesed off when a person (or site) only gives a phone number for contact info. Often if it's a choice of call or do without, I do without. And they do without my business. :-P

including the infamous wave of account strike-outs

I guess I feel like that's rain happening in another state, you know? I don't feel the need to bring in the hammock *just* yet. And it seems to me that when any site oversteps its bounds, be it LJ, or Amazon, for 'adult content', breastfeeding icons, what have you, there's usually enough outrage that they learn to back the eff off.

I guess I've been on enough sites and boards to know that when one group cries "I don't like the moderation over here, there's no fweedom, it's so oppwessive, I'm gonna go make my OWN clubhouse and my OWN rules"....that eventually someone over there will up and decide to hate those rules