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What's the Deal with 'Ditto?
Mar. 8th, 2005 10:50 amI meant to write yesterday, but I ended up not having time. At any rate, this cold sucks and I'm back to being buried by work again.
Some Oliners were playing a game of Mafia and the game concluded on Sunday, so that's back to normal too, although it was rather amusing to see everyone running around acting paranoid.
Also on Sunday, I got my hair cut by one of the other students (a burly man named Hans). You don't notice how much you appreciate not having hair hanging into your eyes until your hair is hanging into your eyes... But that's taken care of. W00t!
So, on to my topic. What do you guys think of all the ruckus surrounding Frienditto?
What it is:
1. You can use it to anonymously archive someone's public journal post.
2. You can use it to anonymously archive someone else's private post. To do this you must give them your LJ username and password. (The entry can be viewed by anyone on Frienditto.
3. Frienditto was used by LJ Drama to archive drama-causing posts.
Concerns:
1. That Frienditto violates copyright laws and privacy (not that people couldn't do that before, but Frienditto made it easier to do anonymously; also, that's not always the case (it would be perfectly legal to archive posts from my journal in that manner, for instance, as I licensed it on a whim)).
2. That Frienditto could be stealing usernames and passwords.
Recently, the site was vandalized and has subsequently been suffering from bandwidth trouble (the site is currently inactive). Also, an LJ community,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ditto_cops, has been monitoring the situation with Frienditto. What do you people think?
(On an entirely unrelated note, I feel that I need to link to this excellent post.)
Some Oliners were playing a game of Mafia and the game concluded on Sunday, so that's back to normal too, although it was rather amusing to see everyone running around acting paranoid.
Also on Sunday, I got my hair cut by one of the other students (a burly man named Hans). You don't notice how much you appreciate not having hair hanging into your eyes until your hair is hanging into your eyes... But that's taken care of. W00t!
So, on to my topic. What do you guys think of all the ruckus surrounding Frienditto?
What it is:
1. You can use it to anonymously archive someone's public journal post.
2. You can use it to anonymously archive someone else's private post. To do this you must give them your LJ username and password. (The entry can be viewed by anyone on Frienditto.
3. Frienditto was used by LJ Drama to archive drama-causing posts.
Concerns:
1. That Frienditto violates copyright laws and privacy (not that people couldn't do that before, but Frienditto made it easier to do anonymously; also, that's not always the case (it would be perfectly legal to archive posts from my journal in that manner, for instance, as I licensed it on a whim)).
2. That Frienditto could be stealing usernames and passwords.
Recently, the site was vandalized and has subsequently been suffering from bandwidth trouble (the site is currently inactive). Also, an LJ community,
ditto_cops, has been monitoring the situation with Frienditto. What do you people think?(On an entirely unrelated note, I feel that I need to link to this excellent post.)
