For reasons I've already stated, I'm probably not going to be moving away from LJ to any other blogging facility.
I love being in touch with my friends, and this format is easiest for me. Facebook is irritating in so many ways, one of the worst being that when I try to scroll down to read friends' posts it keeps jumping all over the place as new ones are added at the top. Twitter is a fun exercise on occasion, and Echo Bazaar is about the only social media game I've encountered that I actually like, but it'll never be as good as this.
What I'm finding, though, is increasing frustration, even when the thing is working, which it hasn't been this morning. Most of the actual discussions I have on here tend to be prompted by something I've said that's controversial, e.g. the latest thing on religion (and all the other things). If I post something about a subject I really like, such as music or film or books or whatever, it seems to go largely unnoticed, but a grump about God will always bring a response. There are, I know, many reasons for things getting missed--people's flists are so huge that if I post something in the morning it's lost somewhere on skip=240 by the time they get home from work, for instance. That's my fault for being unemployed and posting at the wrong times. But it seems also clear that, as a general rule, unless something I post is upsetting, very few people will respond. And I didn't start this journal (despite appearances) because I like upsetting people.
This isn't a complaint. Things are as they are, people are as they are and I wouldn't change one hair, and for all I know loads of people are enjoying the songs and such and just not feeling the urge to say so. I do that myself, gods know. So I don't honestly think there's anything to be done about it. But if LJ goes down permanently, as it well might if these DDoS attacks go on, I think I will have to find another way of staying in touch with people rather than just starting all over again on Dreamwidth or wherever. Maybe I could run a blog from the website, so that there'd be a specific place to go for your daily dose of Zander; I don't know how that would work. (I looked into Wordpress, but it wanted me to have all sorts of extra bits of software what I did not understand.) Anyway, this works as well as anything for the moment, so inertia rules O as usual.
Anyway, that's where I am right now.
I love being in touch with my friends, and this format is easiest for me. Facebook is irritating in so many ways, one of the worst being that when I try to scroll down to read friends' posts it keeps jumping all over the place as new ones are added at the top. Twitter is a fun exercise on occasion, and Echo Bazaar is about the only social media game I've encountered that I actually like, but it'll never be as good as this.
What I'm finding, though, is increasing frustration, even when the thing is working, which it hasn't been this morning. Most of the actual discussions I have on here tend to be prompted by something I've said that's controversial, e.g. the latest thing on religion (and all the other things). If I post something about a subject I really like, such as music or film or books or whatever, it seems to go largely unnoticed, but a grump about God will always bring a response. There are, I know, many reasons for things getting missed--people's flists are so huge that if I post something in the morning it's lost somewhere on skip=240 by the time they get home from work, for instance. That's my fault for being unemployed and posting at the wrong times. But it seems also clear that, as a general rule, unless something I post is upsetting, very few people will respond. And I didn't start this journal (despite appearances) because I like upsetting people.
This isn't a complaint. Things are as they are, people are as they are and I wouldn't change one hair, and for all I know loads of people are enjoying the songs and such and just not feeling the urge to say so. I do that myself, gods know. So I don't honestly think there's anything to be done about it. But if LJ goes down permanently, as it well might if these DDoS attacks go on, I think I will have to find another way of staying in touch with people rather than just starting all over again on Dreamwidth or wherever. Maybe I could run a blog from the website, so that there'd be a specific place to go for your daily dose of Zander; I don't know how that would work. (I looked into Wordpress, but it wanted me to have all sorts of extra bits of software what I did not understand.) Anyway, this works as well as anything for the moment, so inertia rules O as usual.
Anyway, that's where I am right now.