"Strike" on LJ
Tuesday, 18 March 2008 12:54![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fatrockstarI think this is the most absurd thing I've ever read on here since the word "butthurt."
1. The business model is: If you don't want to see advertising, you pay for an account. If you want to use the service for free you have to see ads. This is pretty standard, people. God forbid you have to see a handful of ads between the time you create an account and the time you decide to fork over cash.
2. Friday as a strike/boycott day is stupid. Most people aren't glued to the internet on Friday night. I know I'm not. You want to make an impact? Boycott an entire week. Start on a Monday.
3. Livejournal is owned by someone else. They control the vertical and the horizontal. If they want to pull the plug tomorrow they're well within their rights to. If they want to create oppressive censorship rules what makes you think they're going to give a shit about a 24-hour protest? They don't care!
Money talks. If you refuse to spend your money on this service, spend it elsewhere or buy a controlling stake in the company. Yes, it will be horribly inconvenient to rebuild the community you spent so much time creating here, but that's life. Change is hard. People die, houses burn down, seasons change. Roll with it. Try not to make LiveJournal the center of your universe.
The owners know that the people who have enough of their social lives invested in their site to protest won't ever leave, which is why it's not going to do a damn thing. Oh, a chunk of people stopped using LJ on a weekend? Super! That's faster load times for everyone else!
The bottom line is if you want your blogiverse to never ever change you're going to have to create one of your own. If you're successful, six years down the line you'll sell yours to a big faceless corporation that sees the profit potential in it and you can laugh all the way to the bank.
1. The business model is: If you don't want to see advertising, you pay for an account. If you want to use the service for free you have to see ads. This is pretty standard, people. God forbid you have to see a handful of ads between the time you create an account and the time you decide to fork over cash.
2. Friday as a strike/boycott day is stupid. Most people aren't glued to the internet on Friday night. I know I'm not. You want to make an impact? Boycott an entire week. Start on a Monday.
3. Livejournal is owned by someone else. They control the vertical and the horizontal. If they want to pull the plug tomorrow they're well within their rights to. If they want to create oppressive censorship rules what makes you think they're going to give a shit about a 24-hour protest? They don't care!
Money talks. If you refuse to spend your money on this service, spend it elsewhere or buy a controlling stake in the company. Yes, it will be horribly inconvenient to rebuild the community you spent so much time creating here, but that's life. Change is hard. People die, houses burn down, seasons change. Roll with it. Try not to make LiveJournal the center of your universe.
The owners know that the people who have enough of their social lives invested in their site to protest won't ever leave, which is why it's not going to do a damn thing. Oh, a chunk of people stopped using LJ on a weekend? Super! That's faster load times for everyone else!
The bottom line is if you want your blogiverse to never ever change you're going to have to create one of your own. If you're successful, six years down the line you'll sell yours to a big faceless corporation that sees the profit potential in it and you can laugh all the way to the bank.
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