The point for me personally is that there's a community over there that goes all the way down to the metal, whereas on LJ I feel like the community can only go down so far and then it hits the commercial company run for a profit.
They're already doing a way better job making their code base a real open source project than LiveJournal ever has, they really mean the diversity statement, and they're putting a ton of effort into training new developers and helping people who want to fix things find the resources they need to make changes as opposed to just reporting problems and waiting for a paid employee to fix them.
This is just the stuff that interests me; it's not necessarily compelling to anyone else. Overall, speaking just for me personally, LJ feels like some web service that I use and pay for, whereas Dreamwidth feels like a project I support run by people who I respect and sometimes know.
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Date: 2009-05-02 12:26 am (UTC)They're already doing a way better job making their code base a real open source project than LiveJournal ever has, they really mean the diversity statement, and they're putting a ton of effort into training new developers and helping people who want to fix things find the resources they need to make changes as opposed to just reporting problems and waiting for a paid employee to fix them.
This is just the stuff that interests me; it's not necessarily compelling to anyone else. Overall, speaking just for me personally, LJ feels like some web service that I use and pay for, whereas Dreamwidth feels like a project I support run by people who I respect and sometimes know.