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rserocki wins the prize for the first person on my flist to (without me having to ask) summarize the recent rambling and overlong post to news about what just hoppa. (Basically: a Russian media company, SUP, just agreed to acquire Livejournal from SixApart.)

By itself I probably wouldn't care much, but the whole post-flagging thing left me feeling a little raw. News so soon after of a fundamental structural shakeup at LJ makes me more nervous about leaving six-n-growing years of personal writing exclusively on someone else's servers, running a presentation layer that is getting baroque in strange ways.

Now that I've started to use and enjoy MovableType, and that I have been planning to launch a blog of some variety at jasonmcintosh.com, the chances are looking nonzero that I'll jump ship sometime in the coming year.

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Someone else on my f-list had suggested that this whole post flagging thing was probably a way to make LJ more 'appealing' to a buyer -- "we're providing tools to protect the kiddies" sort of thing. -- apparently they were correct.