possibly the first mention of dreamwidth around here

[cimorene]

I'm going to move to Dreamwidth when it's possible mostly because of the more aggressive feature development, and the features they've already promised, like the separation of reading-list from people-who-can-read-your-locked-posts list.

There's also an element of Owning The Servers. That's the cry of the Organisation for Transformative works: "If only we owned the servers!", something that was borne in upon us here in fandom yet again just a few weeks ago when Scans Daily was TOSed and years worth of lively fannish community and data lost.

Yesterday metafandom carried synecdochic's announcement that the Open Beta period starts on April 30, and if I don't have an invite I'm going to buy an account then.

Dreamwidth will make it easy to move there, including a tool that imports your entire livejournal or insanejournal with comments. It won't import your friendslist (yet), but because of the two-pronged nature of their flist-replacement system, that's probably just as well. It should be easy to move to DW and continue interacting on lj, or to keep up both at once, but of course, the more of fandom that goes there, the better it will work; so I encourage you to check it out.

I also encourage everyone to check out zvi_likes_tv's lj - an amateur DW evangelist, she has a lot of information up, including how-tos and explanations.