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[d_aulnoy]

Honest question for those of you on Dreamwidth - is it that much more active than LJ?  Or is this simply a form of social media that's quietly dying off in favor of the brevity of FB and Twitter?  

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[justbeast.livejournal.com]

DW is way less active than LJ. Both in terms of users, posting volume, and ESPECIALLY comments.

I've been paying attention to the many of my friends who cross-post to both LJ and DW. And the picture is always the same: for the same post, 0 comments on DW (1 or 2 at /most/), and all the comments are on LJ.

The traffic volume on LJ is diminishing, in favor of FB, Twitter and Tumblr (which I just don't understand, that last one). But for all that, LJ is still unmatched, technologically (and culturally). No other service, at the moment, has the following two thingst: 1) reading filters and writing filters (that last one is INCREDIBLY important, and affects the level of intimacy of the posts), AND 2) threaded comments with email notification.
These two things are key to the culture of LJ, this is what makes it brilliant. DW obviously has those capabilities, but I discount it for the reasons above (relative lack of users and comments).

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

It's funny, on my friends that crosspost to DW I am used to seeing a pretty even split of comments-- maybe slightly more on DW. I think it depends on what crowd you follow. I kind of have the feeling that I will eventually move to DW when I have to, I'll just put it off for as long as possible.