I have to say that I honestly don't understand the idea that if one leaves LJ wins, because if LJ loses customers/content providers, isn't that pretty much the definition of losing?
LJ wants $$$-->they get this cash from people viewing ads and people paying for journals. In the wider picture, people buy journals and view ads because you and I are here, posting our content and being an audience they want to reach. LJ is only valuable because I am reading it and I am posting on it. If anyone on my flist has bought/viewed ads in order to see my journal, then my journal helps LJ make money, in other words. Even as a free user, when I view ads, I help LJ make money, in other words.
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LJ wants $$$-->they get this cash from people viewing ads and people paying for journals. In the wider picture, people buy journals and view ads because you and I are here, posting our content and being an audience they want to reach. LJ is only valuable because I am reading it and I am posting on it. If anyone on my flist has bought/viewed ads in order to see my journal, then my journal helps LJ make money, in other words. Even as a free user, when I view ads, I help LJ make money, in other words.