Will you take some reasonable bribe to just pick one journal to be the canonical place to put comments, have that be where the fake-cut goes, and disable comments on the others? Then if you log into LJ once with your OpenID from that journal, your LJ fans can friend that journal and unfriend dglenn and you can be out of here.
I'm hoping that DreamWidth can become the canonical site, but it's not live yet ...
Will the OpenID thing quite work? IIRC, I'd still need to keep an LJ account in order to see others' friends-locked entries on my friendspage (I think I'll have to go to each person's recent-entries page separately to see flocked stuff using an OpenID login), but it's been a while since I did the experiment and I can't find my notes, so I need to try that again. If OpenID really will solve the problem that neatly, that'd be nice.
I don't like the idea of disabling comments despite not really liking the conversation being fragmented either. For one thing, if I pick, say, CommieJournal as the canonical site, and disable comments at GJ and IJ and DJ, then my friends on those three sites will have to take an extra step to comment, not just my LJ friends.
For another, it feels too much like putting all my eggs in one basket: if that site crashes, goes out of business, gets bought, or turns evil, I'll have to redirect everyone to a new home yet again.
What I really want (and I'm not sure whether I can have) is a way to either aggregate comments (post comments locally if you're lazy or just want to toss in a remark, go over to X to see all the comments from all the mirrors in one place), or to propogate comments (wherever you post your comment from, folks reading elsewhere will see it as a copy of an off-site comment).
I got behind on the DW mailing lists, so I'm not sure whether they're already working on something like that or not. I've got a rough idea in my head for how to use a separate-from-all-the-LJish-sites location as the master aggregator spot, but I haven't begun working out details.
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Will the OpenID thing quite work? IIRC, I'd still need to keep an LJ account in order to see others' friends-locked entries on my friendspage (I think I'll have to go to each person's recent-entries page separately to see flocked stuff using an OpenID login), but it's been a while since I did the experiment and I can't find my notes, so I need to try that again. If OpenID really will solve the problem that neatly, that'd be nice.
I don't like the idea of disabling comments despite not really liking the conversation being fragmented either. For one thing, if I pick, say, CommieJournal as the canonical site, and disable comments at GJ and IJ and DJ, then my friends on those three sites will have to take an extra step to comment, not just my LJ friends.
For another, it feels too much like putting all my eggs in one basket: if that site crashes, goes out of business, gets bought, or turns evil, I'll have to redirect everyone to a new home yet again.
What I really want (and I'm not sure whether I can have) is a way to either aggregate comments (post comments locally if you're lazy or just want to toss in a remark, go over to X to see all the comments from all the mirrors in one place), or to propogate comments (wherever you post your comment from, folks reading elsewhere will see it as a copy of an off-site comment).
I got behind on the DW mailing lists, so I'm not sure whether they're already working on something like that or not. I've got a rough idea in my head for how to use a separate-from-all-the-LJish-sites location as the master aggregator spot, but I haven't begun working out details.
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