In your opinion, what makes it better? I should do a proper long post about my reasons, but in short: 1. active development and improvements (Dreamwidth software is a fork of LJ software). Some features are already there, such as: a) splitting the concept of "friends list" into "reading list" and "access list" b) full import of LJ-based journals, including comments c) support of OpenID, which means that people don't need to get a Dreamwidth account in order to comment in one's journal 2. responsive people running it; the ones running it also use it; they also encourage participation 3. No ads, ever. 4. A more sustainable business model than LJ. I'm getting more convinced that LJ's days are numbered; sure, it's still around now, but catering to one's advertisers rather than one's users is not a strategy for long-term success.
I'm on Mac OSX, so I'll have to see what's what. I get the impression that things that work on Linux are likely to work on OSX (though may require extra stuff to be installed in order to get them working).
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I should do a proper long post about my reasons, but in short:
1. active development and improvements (Dreamwidth software is a fork of LJ software). Some features are already there, such as:
a) splitting the concept of "friends list" into "reading list" and "access list"
b) full import of LJ-based journals, including comments
c) support of OpenID, which means that people don't need to get a Dreamwidth account in order to comment in one's journal
2. responsive people running it; the ones running it also use it; they also encourage participation
3. No ads, ever.
4. A more sustainable business model than LJ. I'm getting more convinced that LJ's days are numbered; sure, it's still around now, but catering to one's advertisers rather than one's users is not a strategy for long-term success.
I'm on Mac OSX, so I'll have to see what's what.
I get the impression that things that work on Linux are likely to work on OSX (though may require extra stuff to be installed in order to get them working).