This is a test.

[rax]

This is a test of this whole Dreamwidth infrastructure crossposting thing. I don't have time to do this for serious yet, and even when I do I plan on doing most of my reading and commenting through LJ, at least at first; it has the bulk of my friends, it has the bulk of my this-is-familiar feeling, and the things that pissed other people off about it don't bother me nearly so much. However, as per my new rule "When not adopting a social technology causes you to miss out on important information about people you care about, just adopt the social technology, Rachel," it was time. [0] After I move I'll be setting this up so that I get content from DW-only people on DW and still read everyone else through LJ. I prefer comments on LJ, not DW, and won't be doing the click-through-for-comments thing because I know that in just the last week having to use OpenID made me too lazy to leave a comment ten times. I figure if I'm that lazy, I shouldn't reasonably expect that of anyone else, ever. One benefit of setting up DW is that now I will have tickets when I click through to comment and won't have to run the OpenID rigamarole. 

If you're DW-preferred, you should totally friend rax.dreamwidth.org or whatever it is it's called over t/here.



[0] This is also why I have a Facebook account.

Comments

[kelkyag]

Yay!

I will point out that some people are not comfortable with importing & cross-posting because it means dreamwidth has your livejournal password, which means not only could it grab everything in your journal (which you intend), it could in theory grab things that other people have acl'd to include you (which, while you can allow, they did not intend). Take this as you will; I don't particularly care myself, but neither do I crosspost.

[phi]

It's sort of a security concern, but not nearly as big a concern for me as the ability for anyone with a little bit of skill to find out what people are linking to from locked posts and/or track what people are clicking on. Mostly because DW has so far established a reputation of doing what they say they'll do, and only doing what they say they'll do, whereas LJ has established a reputation for being fucknuts.

[phi]

Also, Hi Rax! It should be trivially easy for you to figure out who I am in RL.

[kelkyag]

I did not mean to say that it was the only lj or dw related security issue, or at all the worst, just that it was one specific to crossposting. At least one person I know is or was considering adjusting what was accessible to people who were cross-posting.