We need a raft

[ciphergoth]

By far the most interesting and insightful thing I've read about SUP and LiveJournal.

Summary: we should start building a raft.

Comments

[reddragdiva]

The only sticking point is secure-ish friends lists. On a hostile internet.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe.

http://chipotle.livejournal.com/183056.html?view=702736#t702736 is why I think it's completely wrong.

[andrewducker]

Meh. I'm still happy here.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

This may be worth keeping an eye on. The author worked for LJ until recently.

[juliet]

If it really had interoperability I might be up for switching earlier than I otherwise would. As has been mentioned before, in several places: the sticking point is that the people I want to talk to are *here*, and writing friends-locked stuff *here*. And there are lots of 'em, so a mass move would be challenging.

(Also I find this a bit depressing because the *other* place I spend time on is also in the middle of liferaft-hunting for slightly different reasons, & it is all making me sad. Wah.)

[olethros.livejournal.com]

Bingo. The killer feature of lj is the ability to authenticate and authorise people we know, because they're already all on lj. I guess what I really want is selective, encrypted RSS.

[reddragdiva]

Obvious social problem that springs to mind: I'm imagining getting access to someone's locked posts and having client software that promptly downloads the entire collection of locked posts. These then becoming precious nuggets of information that are hoarded simply because they're locked. The evolutionary response would be blogs with locked posts that disappear after a set time so they can't be downloaded in a lump going back years.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

"encrypted" is an optional extra - I'd settle for the same level of security that LJ gives me.

[hughe.livejournal.com]

my raft is called facebook, and i'll disembark as soon as it docks somewhere nice

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my current 'best chance' theory is that Facebook will see LJ are pissing people off, and do some work on their 'notes' system to make it a full(er)-featured journalling system. I noticed that they added custom friends groups and related access-control stuff to the site lately, although I'm not sure how that dovetails with the notes subsystem at present.