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I pretty much agree with all of this!

Incidentally, I'm not sure whether it might have been my thread on FB that you were referencing? But the point I at least was making was specifically about a small number of people saying that everyone should use *Diaspora* rather than Facebook, and that anyone who objected to Diaspora had no right to complain about Facebook. That I found disablist (as well as problematic in other respects), for precisely the problems with Diaspora that you note - not everyone could ever learn to use it, not everyone who theoretically could has the energy and/or time. Not even all healthy people with a reasonable amount of free time do! I certainly find Dreamwidth vastly easier to use than Facebook, but I can see one reason why it is an extra challenge to people who aren't used to a blogging-heavy social network. It suits longer, more involved posts, and I think a lot of people lack the confidence to believe that they have anything worth saying in this sort of setup - whereas a single line Facebook post is less... intimidating, possibly? Plus a little bit of html knowledge is generally required, and I think a lot of people overestimate how hard that is. (I think the attitudes of some computer geeks towards non-computer geeks really Do Not Help there, though I don't think it's the only problem.)

For myself, though? I'm really glad to be using LJ and DW more often, and I would really like to start tempting some new people to join too...