Public-ish announcement: Regarding LJ, GJ, IJ, la la la

[seventhe]

Right!

First and foremost, I'm not planning on leaving LJ. I'm way too much of a community whore to do so; I love you guys, I love the community aspect, I love the newsletter, and I am much too lazy to go do this again on another site just because. I'll only move if everyone else moves (or if LJ does something even more ridiculously stupid).

However, to be safe, I've claimed seventhe on both GreatestJournal and InsaneJournal. (Yes, I finally got there before there was another Seventhe! Tempted to move mostly for that reason.)

Anybody else who is on GJ or IJ, drop me your usernames so that I can friend you. <3

My thoughts: I mostly just wish LJ would publish a useful guide on what, exactly, counts as "offensive material". Because I'm pretty sure it's not illegal to draw or write underage/beastiality/rape/squicks/porn in general. Especially when we're depicting fictional characters here. So if LJ wants to come out against it, yeah, that's fine with me - their business, their loss! - just SAY IT, guys. Say it, and say it clearly. There's this great invention called the English Fucking Language.


I'm pretty sure it won't matter in the end. It's a natural law (can it be Sev's Law?) that People Are Lazy and thus I think the whole kerfluffle isn't going to do crap because we're all too lazy to stand up. Call me cynical.

This post will be kept public so that I can make new friends!

Comments

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

The "F-List" has such a wanky connotation. I mean, I friend back anyone who friends me, but I have a lot of selective filters because, like, who wants to deal with all that? Plus, GOD FORBID you de-friend ANYONE. I understand. XD

Wait. What. How.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

Ya. It's fucking politics. I'm actually un-f-locking what is left of my journal. My ex-husband is a cro-magnon and it's been a year since I left him, if he wanted to track me down he would have already.

Alright, prepare yourself for some serious Google-fu

1. First off, you need Firefox. If you are still on IE you fail.

2. Install the extension called Greasemonkey. I also suggest you go check out some scripts that go with Greasemonkey that are unrelated to gmail (like Addblock, which I use to make the internets my bitch and not annoy me)

3. Go get the code better gmail. It also has other cool things, but it's reader is cooler than just the extension on its own.

4. Go subscribe your f-list to google reader Or just subscribe a few, like I do (because I am like that). If you fiddle you may even be able to subscribe to specific filters. Play around.

Sounds complicated, but once its set up, it's full of wonderful. I RSS like its my job (though, ironically, half of my feeds ARE job related).

The only catch is that things under f-lock do not work. BUT it's a great way to keep up with comms and people that don't feel the need to hide all the time.

~Cendri

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

BUT I CAN'T INSTALL FIREFOX AT WORK BECAUSE THEY DON'T LET ME. THIS IS MADE OF LOSE.

Otherwise though my home computer is SERIOUSLY getting that.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

You ever run programs off of a thumb drive? That's what I do at school, to keep all my extensions and shit. Firefox can totally run off of a thumb drive. Though, that SUCKS about your work, it was the namby pamby liberal arts labs that made me install firefox to a thumb drive because they were so attached to IE.

>.>

I'm kind of hardcore with my internets. XD And I keep up with productivity blogs. I should screenshot my firefox and show you how awesome it looks.

~Cendri

[xerne.livejournal.com]

I will also extoll the virtues of the thumb drive. I run firefox, filezilla, a generic aim program, and some other fun stuff off my thumb drive and I love it to pieces.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Note to self: Do this. ;)

[xerne.livejournal.com]

http://portableapps.com/ is a good place to start.