Crossposting yays and woe

[sophinisba]

First of all, a general PSA about crossposting across LJ and Dreamwidth. Did you know you can set it up so there are automatic links in both directions? All my Dreamwidth posts link to their LJ equivalents, and the LJ posts link back (with comment counts!). This was easy to set up and is really helpful to me when I'm going back and forth to answer comments on my own journal, and also helpful when other people do it because it makes it easy for me to read both conversations.

If you want to set this up you go to the Other Sites account settings on Dreamwidth; you might need to click on "Change" to add the link from Dreamwidth to LJ.

And now, a whine! Damn, I thought I was being clever by setting up camelotremix/camelotremix as an individual journal rather than a comm. This way I can crosspost so people can easily read announcements on LJ or Dreamwidth, and the links are put in automatically. That way when we have signups it'll be easy for people to click back and forth between both posts. I'd been thinking for a while that I wished we'd set it up that way with remixthedrabble and a couple other places where there's only one person ever posting anyway, so it seemed silly to have it as a comm.

Now I feel so silly. The problem with having it as a journal on LJ is that that means anyone who wants to follow it has to "friend" it, which would give the mod(s) access to their friends-locked posts. :( I don't want access to everybody's friend-locked posts, I just want to let them see announcements! I could promise not to use the journal to look at other people's journals, but why should they trust me?

So now I'm not sure what to do. I could leave it the way it is and say that people who aren't comfortable friending it can subscribe on Dreamwidth or use notifications to track new entries, but that seems kind of mean. I could set up a comm, call it camelot_remix, say, and use camelotremix as a mod journal to post there. But that would double the work, I mean not only would one have to post twice but the coding would be slightly different and links between entries would have to be added by hand. Gah! I'm so annoyed that I didn't realize earlier that the friending/access thing would be an issue.

ETA: Thanks to a suggestion from shopfront, camelot_remix! A syndicated feed LJ users can subscribe to without giving the mod(s) access to their journals! :)