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Gavin Greig ([personal profile] ggreig) wrote2017-04-10 10:22 pm

Reluctant Mover

This evening I’ve become a reluctant mover to Dreamwidth. I’ve been with LiveJournal since 2004, have had a permanent account for most of that time, and have not previously set up an account with Dreamwidth; but the effect of the recent LiveJournal licence changes on LGBT users is not something I can support. I’m still in the process of configuring stuff, and my LJ entries haven’t even been imported into DW yet, so I’m not sure precisely how things are going to work out and whether my LiveJournal will stay and be cross-posted to. The logic of “taking a stand” suggests that it should go, but I’ll have to wait and see what the practicalities are before making a final decision. This post itself is a bit of a test to see how things work.

I don’t seem to be alone in taking this decision now.

My new account is at http://ggreig.dreamwidth.org/. In the short term I intend that content will be cross-posted to LiveJournal, but that may end at some point.

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[personal profile] vivdunstan 2017-04-10 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I've used a UNIX version of ljarchive before, on my Mac, but haven't checked yet if it will work on Dreamwidth. Thanks for the reminder :)
vivdunstan: Part of own photo taken in local university botanic gardens. Tree trunks rise atmospherically, throwing shadows from the sun on the ground. (Default)

[personal profile] vivdunstan 2017-04-10 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I used ljdump in the past, which is Python based. There's also ljmigrate. They should probably work with DW. Will try!