The secrets that you want to know are yours, not mine

[sovay]

Since apparently it now needs to be stated:

Do not crosspost comments on any locked entries on this journal to Twitter or Facebook. It will not be taken kindly. If I wanted to avail myself of either of those forms of social media, I'd have accounts there.

Seriously, LJ, what the hell?

Comments

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Whunh?

[sovay]

Whunh?

You see that when you post a comment, it now asks if you would like the comment to be reposted to Facebook or Twitter? This works with friendlocked posts:

If you set your default to cross-post comments, ALL of your comments, including screened and Friends Only comments, can be cross-posted whenever you choose. Only public comments, however, will be preselected to cross-post. If you wish to cross-post a Friends Only or screened comment, you will need to select the cross-posting option manually when you post the comment. Of course, you can override your settings on a per-comment basis, so you have complete control over whether to cross-post each and every comment.

I use locked posts for writing-related things. This is not okay by me.

[seishonagon.livejournal.com]

Okay, what the hell. This is a ridiculous way to implement this "service."

At least they didn't make posting to FB and Twitter the default setting, but the only way I had of knowing that was actually checking... which took longer than it should have.

[sovay]

This is a ridiculous way to implement this "service."

cucumberseed reports a script for removing the repost option, although it only seems to work in Firefox.

[kerrickadrian.livejournal.com]

I can't wait until Diaspora comes out. I'll be off Facebook and LJ pretty much that day. Dreamwidth is pretty cool but wasn't really doing it for me--I don't want a service that looks and acts pretty much identical to LJ but is run by good people.

[sovay]

I can't wait until Diaspora comes out. I'll be off Facebook and LJ pretty much that day.

I haven't even heard of Diaspora. What is it?

[eredien]

Answer One: Facebookish alternative made by independent coders who actually care about things like web standards and privacy and users.

Answer Two: The open-source social networking equivalent of Last Dangerous Visions.

http://www.joindiaspora.com/

[kerrickadrian.livejournal.com]

Diaspora (http://www.joindiaspora.com/) is a little hard to explain. As I understand it, some folks have decided that the way to fix the social web is to take the control away from the companies like helljay and facestab and make one universal open source social network that anyone can host on any webspace. So I could download Diaspora and host it on my site for myself and my friends, and use it to interact with your Diaspora site that you host on your server or the Diaspora site for the club or collective you participate in, etc., but never give up my own control over my privacy. Limited release planned for October. It sounds good, and gives me an alternative to the aforementioned evil corps...until it gets not good anymore.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I can't believe that they were stupid enough to come up with this crosspost thing in the first place. LJ and Facebook are two different things, to me, and there are reasons why I don't use my full/real name on LJ.

I'm FB friends with my cousins and uncles and aunts and folk I went to high school with; FB is not a place where I would, for instance, let on that I write romance about bisexual werewolves. There are reasons why certain things, when/if they're published, will go out under a pseudonym.