InsaneJournal

Current mood:

rushed

one day boycott of LJ
UPDATED 2: "darkrosetiger" at LJ has a rough translation from Russian of an interview with Sup's Anton Nosik. She also links to a less inflammatory translation here. Even with the difference, and a quick read, I find Nosik to be more than a little dismissive.

UPDATED: With link to original boycott post.

Crossposted as is from LJ and a hat tip to "dargie" at LJ for letting me know about this.

On Friday, March 21, from midnight to midnight GMT, there's a one day LJ boycott. Which for me works out to 5 p.m. Thursday to 5 p.m. Friday allowing for PDT.

I don't know that even if LJ takes note they would care and I'm a little skeptical if one day will make a difference or how the effectiveness will be measured. Not posting isn't going to work if people still reply to comments, etc. A page click is still going to be site traffic.

That said, I'm still going to honor the boycott and anything of pith I might think of to say will be posted at InsaneJournal, Some Velvet Morning where I'm pretty much crossposting everything these days anyway and pouting because I don't see many people there.

Also, "stewardess" at InsaneJournal has been noting some interesting omissions/removals in what LiveJournal was listing as top interests and did a bit of digging via caches. E.g. at one point "fanfiction" was disappeared as a top interest but "slash" remained, probably because they didn't know wtf it meant. Check out her timeline post. As of Monday, March 17, the top interests appeared to be back to what they had been previously. There's been lots of not so tinfoil-y speculation in the past about LJ's wish to have a clean shiny market to present to advertisers, so this tinkering could be related to that.