Crossposting feature (e.g. Dreamwidth)

[scolaro]

Title
Crossposting feature (e.g. Dreamwidth)

Short, concise description of the idea
It should be possible to crosspost from the original LJ entry to other services like Dreamwidth etc.

Full description of the ideaSeveral of my friends wandered off to Dreamwidth, so to stay in contact with them I opened a DW account as well. There is a crossposting

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Dreamwidth's setup is basically acting as a client program to update other journal sites, and optionally adding on the footer below the entry, as well as sometimes disabling comments on the remote site.

Since this comes up with the keyword "crossposting", for those who are not familiar, their implementation doesn't allow things like crossposting to multiple communities, to communities at all, or to other journals you control on the same service, only to your accounts on different services.

[azurelunatic]

Dreamwidth's implementation, with the setup in the main settings place, and then checkboxes below the security settings, is reasonable as far as UI goes.

I have a profound mistrust of tag-based controls, myself, based on my loathing for overloading index-tagging and control-tagging.

[scolaro]

Um... if I have 5 friends on one site and 4 others on another, and I'd like to stay in contact with all of them, even though both groups don't frequent the same site I wouldn't call copying a text spamming.

Besides, you can cut+paste the text to both sites even now, it's just not as convenient as having a "professional crossposting feature".

I don't really see your problem here.

[azurelunatic]

He's speaking from the perspective of a user with "dual siteizenship" (er, that's a bit twee -- someone who's also got accounts in both/many/all places), where they're reading you not just once, on their friends page, but also on their reading page, on their blogroll, in their RSS reader, on their Twitter, on their FriendFeed, etc.

The first time they see any one given entry, it's signal. After that, unless there are comments of interest or other unique content (for example, say you have a WordPress blog that's 80% echoes of stuff from LJ, and 20% unique entries that your LJ friends likely wouldn't be interested in), it's noise.

The answer isn't always as clear-cut as to remove the accounts that are duplicating content, because sometimes you want to give access (and read/access is tied like with friends on LJ), sometimes there's that 20% of unique content, sometimes there are comments, etc.

It's a social problem that technical solutions haven't quite caught up with yet.

[scolaro]

Okay, in this case I understand the problem, of course. (I kinda wish it was possible to just have LJ as the main site and import feeds from all over the place here, on your friends page. Would be much easier.)

However, regarding the use of a crossposting feature - IMO it's really something the user should decide - I'm not for limiting a site's functionality because some users may use it in an annoying way ('cause they can already do so, if they want).