The Great Escape
I finally bit the bullet and staked my claim to chthonia on IJ (which irritates me every time I look at it) and GJ. A silver lining of all this for me is being able to reclaim my 'real' name. ;) But I won't be using them, except perhaps for commenting - unless most of my friends actively migrate, I'll stick with LJ until a fan-run alternative becomes available.

I've seen a lot of comments about people not wanting to lose track of their friends and about not wanting fandom to split, and while I'd prefer everyone to be in the same place I can't help wondering how much difference it will really make. Personally, a week ago I'd never heard of the people who've been deleted, and I very much doubt they've ever heard of me. Which isn't to say that I don't think they've been treated abominably, nor that I won't move once the direction of movement becomes clear, but it's not going to be a great loss to me if NC-17 cross-gen slash is primarily posted elsewhere when I rarely came across it here anyhow. In fact, the part of me that gets rather annoyed when people speak as though fandom=slash=porn can't help wondering whether I might feel more at home here if LJ became less dominated by that segment of fandom.

What will be a great loss to me, of course, is if all of you friends who post NC-17 slash along with the more personal and theoretical posts feel you have to move. But before LJ we had pairing-specific mailing lists, archives for NC-17 only, archives that stretched to R and archives aimed squarely at younger readers. Whatever mishmash of different journals we end up with, it's not going to be as segregated as that again.

Actually, I'm kind of curious to see which way it goes - will IJ!fandom differ from GJ!fandom, and will both have an even greater concentration of porn than we've seen here? Will fandom desert LJ, or will LJ fandom shrink and change in tone?

Change happens - it's part of life. But fandom will survive.