One thing it's hard to predict is how the various sites will handle growth, whether it's the slow growth of the ordinary accrual of members, or abrupt growth due to migration. Will they get better as more resources for improvements become available? Worse as the resources the owner can afford get stretched too thin? Sell out to some more commercial entity? Knuckle to pressure applied indirectly via advertisers? (The last seems particularly unlikely for GJ and IJ, at least.)
One reason I chose to use multiple mirrors was because I didn't know where (or whether) most of my friends were going to move, and I wanted to be convenient to everyone and have them convenient to me. The other reason was that, as painful as the idea of moving from LJ is, I did not then want to wind up similarly bound to another site, in case wherever I moved to wound up doing something similarly stupid and/or evil. With mirrors, as long as I can make sure everyone reading me at any location knows the other locations and don't make any one site "primary", cutting off a site if it goes bad won't be like moving house, just a matter of cutting off one outlet.
The more transparent I can make access via OpenID, the more flexibility I have, and the lower the nuisance-cost and emotional-cost of telling any one site, "what you just did is unacceptable; goodbye." Like many other people, I felt months ago that the ethical choice would have been to leave LJ in protest, but the perceived cost of doing so was too high. I don't want to have to make that sort of decision again.
And thank you for the good wishes regarding my health.
closing thoughts
One reason I chose to use multiple mirrors was because I didn't know where (or whether) most of my friends were going to move, and I wanted to be convenient to everyone and have them convenient to me. The other reason was that, as painful as the idea of moving from LJ is, I did not then want to wind up similarly bound to another site, in case wherever I moved to wound up doing something similarly stupid and/or evil. With mirrors, as long as I can make sure everyone reading me at any location knows the other locations and don't make any one site "primary", cutting off a site if it goes bad won't be like moving house, just a matter of cutting off one outlet.
The more transparent I can make access via OpenID, the more flexibility I have, and the lower the nuisance-cost and emotional-cost of telling any one site, "what you just did is unacceptable; goodbye." Like many other people, I felt months ago that the ethical choice would have been to leave LJ in protest, but the perceived cost of doing so was too high. I don't want to have to make that sort of decision again.
And thank you for the good wishes regarding my health.