Silverthorne

On the whole LJ strike thing blah blah blah...

If it isn't obvious by now that they'll do what they want regardless of the opinions of the current user base, then you haven't really been paying attention.

Also, we're apparently not exactly loved by our new russian overlords anyway (I'll cough up a link later--right now I want to finish this post so I can post about Foot instead. That, and I'm sure you'll see it elsewhere on your flists before I can find my own link anyway, so...), so the whole boycott thing won't impress them anyway. Their attitude? 'Yay! Less freeloaders with weird interests=more paid users and businesses'.

And they would be correct in thinking that. We may leave, but there will always be people willing to pay for a service that others think should be free and/or uncensored.

In short, the boycott on Friday may make the users feel better and give us a sense of 'fuck you, dude!'...but. It won't really do much. Even if we managed to leave a smoking crater in our wake--they'd fill it with what they really wanted.

Anyhow...yeah.

So here's my short note.

We've (as in LJ) been sold to Russia (as in the company known as SUP). Such info can be found at lj_news, lj_biz, and lj_2008

Yay?

Who knows? Although I've heard some scary shit so far about the new company's way of dealing with things.

So. Just in case belonging to Russia now just doesn't sit well:

My IJ Journals are:

Same as they are here, actually.

silverthorne= RL journal, like this one.
carpentersbride= creative journal. Look at the pretty colors, dudes.

derek_bliss= you know I can't abandon him.
that_surfer_guy= or the 'mini' version, either.

adanceofsouls= Final Fantasy OC. Just getting set up there and here.

also:

one_wild_night= Bon Jovi stuff. Which has nothing on it at the moment

and

blood_and_bone= um...a comm. For horror. And Stuff. Likewise kinda inactive because...well...yeah. Not enough people there yet to get the ball rolling.

Anyhow, there you go. Make notes, friend me if you go that way, and I will friend back.

And now I'm going to try going back to bed.