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[reddragdiva]

I see everyone's fleeing from LJ in horror. Press the magic button to flee, it works very nicely. Then go back to LJ and tick "Minimize my journal's inclusion in search engine results." Then if you have any money, give them a bit, servers cost money. To do: reconstruct my LJ network on DW.

It is important to keep in mind at all times that DW is not the Platonic ideal of a journal network more perfect than you ever imagined, and that its owners are fallible humans. e.g. There are damn good reasons why the "trusted by" list on profiles should be concealable (read down to last paragraph) — but denise (owner) has decided the notion is probably Hitler. I do see the point of not implicitly promising security you can't deliver, but "you could probably derive bits of it by extreme effort, so let's make it big and public!" is a strange answer that suggests this is a personal sore spot, and not something amenable to reasoned discussion. Perhaps I'm over-reading.

In any case, be just as ready to up sticks from DW as you were from LJ. (Assuming getting your data out is available. Open Core FTL!) It's probably got at least three years until it sucks.

Been writing NewsTechnica again. Add newstechnica_feed (or newstechnica) for updates as they happen.

Today I didn't even attempt to go to work. It's nice having a job where you can work at home pretty much at whim. You?

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[hellsop]

There are damn good reasons why the "trusted by" list on profiles should be concealable (read down to last paragraph) — but [staff profile] denise (owner) has decided the notion is probably Hitler. I do see the point of not implicitly promising security you can't deliver, but "you could probably derive bits of it by extreme effort, so let's make it big and public!" is a strange answer that suggests this is a personal sore spot, and not something amenable to reasoned discussion. Perhaps I'm over-reading.

It's a simple take-away that simple security doesn't stop a clever baddy. The second lesson: that very few baddies are clever, most of them don't think you're worth bothering with, and that simple security does stop the simple baddies takes a little more time.

[reddragdiva]

Yes, and Denise is smart enough to understand that. Hence my bewilderment at the neon sign option instead.

[eagle]

A lot of the people who attack LJ are very clever. A lot of the griefing problems that LJ has encountered are from determined attackers who are quite capable of automating the process of constructing someone's friends list from other data and then distributing that tool to other people. So I can understand why, back in 2009, that wasn't high on the list of things to look at, although I agree with you that having a setting with an appropriate warning would be better.

I don't think they've decided that the idea "is probably Hitler" (what does that even mean?) so much as they've decided it's not a useful enough coding effort to put time into compared to other features. I bet if someone wrote it with appropriate wording, they'd take it.

[mstevens]

I already fled! I just wish more people would, so I could stop crossposting to LJ.

[loosechanj]

I'm a little scared about importing but I'll probably get over it. I need more friends over here before it feels more like "home".

[lpetersson]

It's nice having a job where you can work at home pretty much at whim. You?


After 11 months unemployment I'm just happy to have a job ^_^

[trialia]

Honestly, I'd want to be able to see who could see my comments on someone else's journal before I friend them, too. There are a few rabid people in fandom I've had banned from my own journal for years, but who also happen to be friends with some of my friends...so, yeah. I'd kind of like to be able to see.

[reddragdiva]

This information would be available to you once they had released it to you, thus allowing you to comment in that situation.

Both the Geek Social Fallacies and their 180° opposites are bad. Reversing silly is not equal to smart.

[reddragdiva]

I think the essential point is that the DW user base is expanding way beyond fandom. And that DW started as being a service for fandom and really doesn't understand that there are people who aren't in fandom. So they applied fandom logic and, despite being nice people, can't be trusted to really get how non-fandom people think. This is my actual point.

[trialia]

Mm. As for your other comment to mine, yes, I do agree neither way is perfect. But neither way is completely wrong either. This is the problem with social networking in a nutshell, really, isn't it? That it's hard to have complete privacy and make new friends online, but equally hard to be completely public and avoid idiots.