Safety. If leaving LJ seemed so traumatic to me, having to move twice would really suck. And if I picked a site that disintegrated under the influx of LJ-expatriates, or became a victim of its own success and had to start selling ads to keep afloat, or became so popular that it got bought by a larger company, I wanted the next place-to-move-to already established. So it would be a matter of just turning one copy off, rather than picking up and moving.
That, and of the folks who did leave LJ entirely then, whom I still wanted to keep up with, some went to GJ, some went to IJ, some went to DJ, some went to JF, some made plans to start their own site ... I haven't worked out a way to combine all my friendslists into one page yet (well, not if I want to see the friends-locked stuff), but that's the eventual goal.
Anyhow, any site where I set up an account to read with, I figured I may as well also start mirroring my posts, since the account was there. And if any of the people I went there to read also want to conveniently read me away from LJ, there I am. That's why the plan to have three or four mirrors wound up being nine.
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That, and of the folks who did leave LJ entirely then, whom I still wanted to keep up with, some went to GJ, some went to IJ, some went to DJ, some went to JF, some made plans to start their own site ... I haven't worked out a way to combine all my friendslists into one page yet (well, not if I want to see the friends-locked stuff), but that's the eventual goal.
Anyhow, any site where I set up an account to read with, I figured I may as well also start mirroring my posts, since the account was there. And if any of the people I went there to read also want to conveniently read me away from LJ, there I am. That's why the plan to have three or four mirrors wound up being nine.