BTW, I have too many ideas that are too disjointed and many of which are implemented *somewhere* to describe everything I've thought, so what I say is bound to seem piecemeal, I'm sorry.
Why not just edit lj and add in some new features, as it's all open source, and then no-one has to move?
Starting from LJ or other open source code probably will be what you'd do. But I believe LJ is not designed for blogs on different LJ servers to work together, so you'd either have to get people to switch to your implementation of LJ, or persuade the lj company to implement many of your changes. And I would like them to, but would like a system which isn't contingent on what they think appropriate.
Re: A way to make posts public, without having them appear on my friends' friendspages
Why not just edit lj and add in some new features, as it's all open source, and then no-one has to move?
Starting from LJ or other open source code probably will be what you'd do. But I believe LJ is not designed for blogs on different LJ servers to work together, so you'd either have to get people to switch to your implementation of LJ, or persuade the lj company to implement many of your changes. And I would like them to, but would like a system which isn't contingent on what they think appropriate.