Comment Re:Exactly (Score 1) 436
No, you missed my point. As it stands now, your arrangement works because there's a livejournal community you're adding to even if you're not a member of livejournal itself. The analogy I would say is that you moved from this big apartment complex where all your family and friends live at to this house just down the street from it. Although you sleep and eat (for the most part), in your home, you're still able to go over to the complex and visit and participate in that community. Or, occasionally, one or two of them may come over to your house. But, it's two separate places...and your home (or blog) is an addendum to the apartment complex (livejournal community) down the street.
Unless we can figure out how to start communities without the infrastructure that places like livejournal provides, communities that flourish at places like livejournal will always be somehow beholden to the corporate or company owners--despite paid accounts.
That's what ticks me off the most about situations like this one...the helplessness. Today, greatestjournal and other lj knock-offs may sound good, but whose to say they won't eventually evolve into what is now livejournal?
