[Poll]: Where do we go from here?

[thefourthvine]

Okay, I've put this off long enough. (Hi, my name is TFV, and I'm totally change-phobic. I hold the regional title for hiding-head-in-sand, and am a certified expert in change denial. Need mentoring in the fine art of fearing change? I am here for you.)

Seems to me that, what with the ever-changing and quite confusing ToS on LJ, it's only reasonable for me to do something besides post all my content to LJ and just kind of hope I don't lose it. (Yes, I have backups, but not, at this time, a real offsite backup.) But, of course, I'm waffling on what I'm going to do. When in doubt, poll!

Also, every day I'm seeing deletions and departure notices, and I kind of want to figure out where everyone is going before you're all, you know, gone. I realize I'm too late to catch the first wave of LJ departures, so if any of you cross-post or do newsletter things or also journal on another service, I'd really appreciate a link. (This isn't just for people on my friends list, by the way. There are journals I read that I don't have friended, after all.) So, again, a poll seems like a good way to collect information.

I know people who don't have LJ accounts anymore - as in, deleted or suspended - can't actually take the poll. In that case, feel free to answer whichever questions you choose (including, ideally, the location of your journal-type content and your fanworks) in the comments. Anonymous commenting is on. If you can't do that, either, then feel free to email me. I want to know where you are!

It's probably getting really boring seeing polls like this all over your friends list. I'm sorry. But I don't want to lose my content or my community, so - well, I'd really appreciate it if you'd take mine. (If it makes you grouchy, there's an option in the poll to tell me to just quit LJing. Feel free to use it!)



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Comments

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I hear you. I am not precisely the queen of early adopters, either, in part because it takes this household at least a year to commit to buying anything. (And even more if it requires going to an actual store somewhere. We're, um, not big fans of shopping.)

But I think I'll be here as long as fandom is, and when my part of fandom goes somewhere else, so will I. The hard part is the in between time right now, when part of my part of fandom is gone and the other part is still here.

Change. Why does it have to be change?

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Well, I think one of two things will happen. Either, after a lot of tentative tries, the fandom I am interested in will as a whole settle down into one primary medium, like it used to be on Usenet and is now more or less on LJ, and then I will, after much kicking & screaming, join them there. This hasn't happened yet. Fandom still seems pretty dispersed. The other thing that might happen is that it just stay dispersed; and I'm really kind of curious about what if that happens, because I think it will require a different kind of change in interaction than just switching from LJ to GJ or whatever. And I don't know what that would be. RSS feeds? Google Alerts? We'll see.