What is this Dreamwidth of which you speak?

[feliciakw]

So . . . is this another change in internet networking trends?

First, it was a mailing list (angus, I think). And I was happy there.

Then, it was YahooGroups. And that was good, too. Particularly since I could read it as a message board without having it come to my e-mail if I wanted.

Then it was LJ, and things became less centralized and more spread out and not so easily accessible, but I can record my own thoughts and activities, but still . . . not as focused . . .

Now there's talk of the Dreamwidth thing. Are people jumping ship from LJ for the next trend?

I mean, I'm already on Facebook (mostly for family), and whitemartyr caught me on a low day and utched me into joining Twitter. I don't need one more place I'm not gonna keep up with . . .

Btw, I'd still be interested in an easy way to download or save my LJ to my computer. Any suggestions?

Comments

[yasminke.livejournal.com]

Dreamwidth is an alternative to LJ, like IJ or JF. Some people are going to jump ship but we'll see if this is the HMS Bounty or not.

So you're on Twitter too, eh?

There's software to archive your LJ. Try "ljarchive".

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

I have a program I used to archive my LJ on my hard drive, but it's for Windows only, afaik. Since I'm moving to a Macbook soon, if you find anything for Mac, shoot me the link pretty please?

(I'M not going off LJ, I can tell you that much.)

[whitemartyr.livejournal.com]

I for one still love LJ (*hugs LJ*) and am not planning to leave it!

[kerravonsen]

I have a dreamwidth account (http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org) because I think it is better than LJ. But seeing as I have a permanent account with LJ, I'll be crossposting to both journals. In fact, I am already crossposting to both journals.

Downloading your LJ; the only thing I've found that works on Linux is ljmigrate, which one can use to upload to another service, but one can also use it to just back up one's LJ.

[leelust.livejournal.com]

I don't even know what twitter is and now it's dreamwidth. I'm too old to run with young people for all new shiny things, i'm staying here.