PSA

[ladysprite]

I am not bailing to Dreamwidth. I know it's made of rainbows and unicorn fluff, and is apparently perfect in every way, and that LJ is evil and bad for having other people attack it and occasionally being unavailable for once in the ten years that I've been here, but.... I just like LJ better.

I do have a Dreamwidth account; I've grabbed it mostly for the sake of grabbing my username while I still can, and because so many people are panicking, flailing, and jumping ship that part of me is afraid that eventually I'll be the only person left here. Until I absolutely have to, though, I will not be reading there and I will not be posting there.

This is my home. I like it here.

Comments

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Well, that brings us to the reason for the attacks. If it is against the LJ business, then leaving LJ makes sense, as the attackers would stop once LJ is dead.

If it is against the content, however, then if the targeted content moves to DW, the attacks would follow it, and you have no safety.

[jducoeur]

Yep, that's true.

I don't think it's obvious that the Russians would move en masse to DW, mind. Indeed, the underlying theory of the attacks seems to be that wrecking LJ would cause the Russian blogosphere to disperse and stop being a problem, although that's probably naive and incorrect. I expect that everybody would wind up recollecting *somewhere*, but there are a number of possibilities of where.

But there's certainly a non-trivial chance of the scenario you describe, with ever-widening collateral damage taking down DW shortly after LJ...

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Or, there's also the possibility that it isn't "the Russians", and that the whole thing is about something else, in which case the future is unpredictable.

And while the future is uncertain, the fact of the matter is that most cataclysmic predictions fail to materialize.

[jducoeur]

Yep -- considerably more often than not, issues can be fixed before they become true crises. But when the situation involves this many unknowns, I prefer to have a fallback plan in place.

(It's true that the Russian thing is just a theory, but it's a plausible one, especially since nobody else has the obvious motivation and capability to mobilize quite this level of resources against LJ. And I gather that the attack was originally centered specifically against some Russian political blogs before widening...)