Are you on LiveJournal, Dreamwidth, or both?

[cos]

Nearly two years ago, I imported all of my LiveJournal posts to Dreamwidth and switched to posting there rather than on LJ. That was when the Russian owners of LiveJournal changed the rules to ban "political solicitation" and started cracking down on LGBTQ posters and critics of Russia, and a lot of people moved off LJ because of that. But I kept automatically crossposting my dreamwidth posts to LJ.

Sometime later, I shifted to mostly just reading on dreamwidth, and stopped checking my livejournal friends page. I realized recently that some of the people I used to read haven't actually moved, and I hadn't noticed because to me it looked like they (you?) just stopped posting! But now I see that even though a few people are crossposting like I am, there are some people I read who are only posting on one site or the other, not both. That also leads me to wonder where people are reading.

If you read this on LJ and can vote in the poll on dreamwidth, please click over and vote :)
But I'm interested in your comments about your use of these sites, in addition to the poll.

Poll #21130

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 39

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I most often post to...

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dreamwidth only
23 (60.5%)

livejournal only
1 (2.6%)

crossposted to both sites
13 (34.2%)

equally to both dreamwidth and livejournal
0 (0.0%)

dunno, I haven't posted in over a year
3 (7.9%)

I read...

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on dreamwidth, more than once a week
30 (76.9%)

on dreamwidth, less than once a week
9 (23.1%)

on livejournal, more than once a week
3 (7.7%)

on livejournal, less than once a week
6 (15.4%)

I never read and I'm not seeing this
1 (2.6%)

Comments

[macthud]

[x] I am apparently Cos.

I haven't had time/energy/focus to set up crossposting from DW to LJ, and I haven't found how to auto-collect my tweets on DW as I do on LJ, and that's been the bulk of my LJ posting for a while. I do occasionally think to do a batch import from LJ to DW, so they're roughly in sync, most of the time.

When I read one, I generally read both, which is usually a couple times a week, but sometimes I miss for a few weeks...

Re: Are you on LiveJournal, Dreamwidth, or both?

[cos]

It sounds like you usually post to livejournal only, and you usually read both of them more than once a week? (But you didn't vote for those options)

[tshuma]

This response made me laugh.

[squirrelitude]

I overwrote my LJ posts after import to DW but did not quite burn the bridge of deleting my LJ account. But yeah, totally on DW these days.

I also don't use the Reading Page as my primary way of reading new posts. Instead, I have a lot of people's journals in my feed reader (desktop app), especially journals where I want to make sure I don't miss a post.

[antimony]

I have a perm account on LJ, which they've continued to honor despite all the ownership changes etc, so my LJ experience is still really nice without giving them more $$.

(I actually probably haven't posted to my main journal in over a year but I have used a side one, which is cross-posted.)

[laurion]

Post to my own self-hosted, but crosspost to both DW and LJ. Pull RSS feeds from DW for everyone who moved to DW, but still have an RSS feed of my old LJ friends feed in case anyone still posts over there.

[eirias]

I completely lied in this poll, oops. I meant to click "Dreamwidth only" for both. I moved over around two years ago and believe it or not I sometimes still type the wrong URL in when I'm trying to get here.

EDIT: ah, I was able to fix it! Wasn't sure that was permitted.