on xposting and long-form

[jazzfish]

21 days for Dreamwidth, #3
Do you crosspost? Why or why not?

I crosspost to Livejournal, because I like having readers and that's where most of my community is. Herd inertia is a strong force.

When I began posting primarily at DW I chose to leave LJ comments enabled because according to an informal poll of my readership I'd lose commenters if I disabled comments on the LJ side. And I'm far too attached to the feedback and interaction I get from comments to do something that would get in its way.

---

This is part of why I've not really taken to Twitter, or Facebook. Not only are they not set up for long-form blogging of the kind I strongly prefer (both reading and writing), they're not set up for in-depth conversations. Twitter's better about those than FB is, but Twitter still doesn't lend itself to thoughtful measured responses.

The golden age of LJ had its share of pure surface frippery ("8:00 I lost my hairbrush" "8:05 Oh, there it is"). It also had more people writing longer bits because that's what the available platform supported. I miss that. "Longer" doesn't have to mean thousand-word screeds, it can be a paragraph or two. Something that's got a bit more reflection to it than just a nominally-witty phrase or "so i was at this thing tonight."

Also, you kids should get off my lawn.

Comments

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

Hmm, if I can echo DW to LJ seamlessly, maybe when I move to a new stealth self, I will do so there. LJ's user base has shrunk, but it's still bigger than DW. If there's a good way to use both, that would be best, as my goal in using LJ is actual human interaction and stuff.

Twitter seems to encourage interaction, but mindless interaction. FB somehow manages to discourage interaction, despite everyone and their brother making use of it. Often, frequent use of it.

[jazzfish]

You can echo from DW to LJ seamlessly, but not the other way 'round. Not that it necessarily matters which way it goes. Well, except that you'll have to use the DW versions of the LJ-specific tags (user name= instead of lj user= and cut instead of lj-cut).

FB somehow manages to discourage interaction, despite everyone and their brother making use of it.

YES. Facebook is like a tree full of birds in spring, all of them chirping "here i am! here i am!"