Moderator Announcement: Davis_Square (the community) is moving!

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

As previously noted in the community, the four moderators of your community here (ron_newman, surrealestate, cos, and prunesnprisms) have agreed that the current state of LiveJournal under its new hosting status and new terms of service are not one we would choose to continue discussion under.

Your community will be moving to this location at the hosting tool Dreamwidth, beginning May 1. You may create a free account with Dreamwidth here. You may also choose to continue with OpenID from Google or from Facebook. Many of you will know already that this is a similar blogging site to Livejournal, maintained by former LiveJournal team members, and hosted in the US -- here is some recent information for new members posted by the team here.

While we don't plan to remove any content that's ever been posted here, we'd like to mark a line in the sand at which point we leave the top post on this community as a pointer to where we are now located. ron_newman has backed up the community twice to make sure all our older posts and comments are preserved. However, there is no way to continuously cross-post the community, and none of us will continue to push new posts over to Livejournal after May 1.

You can read more about the concerns regarding Livejournal as a platform here

Your team of moderators are open to suggestions about the style of the community on Dreamwidth, as it has not been chosen recently and is probably not as up to date as it could be for mobile or other readability. Please feel free to share in the comments.

On a personal note, leaving Livejournal a few months ago, other than this community, was personally very difficult for me as I’ve been using this platform more than fifteen years. I do quite like Dreamwidth and had no problems migrating over. I believe in the leadership team’s statement of diversity and guiding principles. I really hope that those of you who are similarly conflicted about LJ and want to maintain an open community for us to have discussion about just any old thing happening in Davis Square will find us there.

Comments

another moderator chimes in here

[ron_newman]

Thank you for making this announcement, which I agree is absolutely necessary. If read strictly, the new Russified LJ terms of service appear to prohibit a considerable amount of content that we consider routine here, such as discussions of politics and LGBT issues. They also refer to Russian laws that we'd rather not have to understand and comply with.

Although I suspect the Russian government doesn't much care what we post on LJ in the English language, I'd rather that our community not take the risk.

For comparison, here are Dreamwidth's terms of service, along with their guiding principles. Also worth reading is today's news announcement from the Dreamwidth team.