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As many know, there's a content blackout on at LJ today and tomorrow (given global time zones). I support the idea because I support any effort by a user group to make their voices heard, and clearly LJ seems to pay attention only when people are screaming about something. There's been pro and con positions regarding whether this effort makes any sense, whether the motivation was justified, whether the latest LJ post (avec apology) continues to justify it, etc. However it is the other half of the event that interests me, the one where fans are encouraged to post and comment at IJ.

Obviously since I have a journal at IJ, I would be glad to see more posts here. But to me there is a larger issue, which is not to have all of fandom's eggs in one basket. Now technically this is already true. Fandom has existed in many places before LJ and continues to do so, and many fans in many fandoms have barely even heard of LJ. And many who have still don't want to get a journal and quite a few of those who do have an account only log in so they can access otherwise locked content.

And this is where I think the problem with LJ lies.