Dreamwidth - anyone else thinking about jumping ship?

[strangetomato]

I've been checking out Dreamwidth a little lately, and I'm really considering moving over there once it opens up to the public (April 30). Some major pluses are the "reading page" instead of the "friends" list, which has always been reminiscent of grade five girl gangs at best (even just the new name is far better, but it also separates "friends only" access and the things you want to follow into two distinct things- THANK YOU!) and this amazing diversity statement. It seems to take everything that's good about livejournal and fix everything that sucks. As it looks right now, I'll be switching.

Is anyone else considering this?

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[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

I must be living under a rock, because this is the first time I've read anything about Dreamwidth.

It seems pretty neat from the little info they offer on their home page -and I'm worried about the LJ russian bot issues (I've been friended by a couple and I nearly freaked out)- but I'd probably wait until it really gets some "impulse" before making the jump.

Back when the whole "strike through" drama happened, lots of fandom people said they'd switch to Insanejournal, but as far as I know, most stayed here. I like being able to read my friends' journals and the sim communities through my friend's page, so it'd be a hassle to switch back to my LJ everytime I wanted to do so if everyone remained here.

But if what akatonbo mentioned about eventually being able to read and keep in touch with my LJ friends from my dreamwith account, then I'll move there too when that becomes a reality. I recently lost most of my entries, anyway, so it'd be easy for me to make the switch :).