Dreamwidth, LJ, and me

I'm really waffling over whether or not I want to move to Dreamwidth. The recent LJ ads thing really, really bothered me (long story short, NOM bought ads through Google to display for the keywords "gay marriage", so anti-gay ads showed up on the flists/posts/etc. of LGBT people and allies, and there were also fetishistic ads about "ladyboys" showing up on the flists/posts/etc. of transpeople).

I'm not one of those who blames LJ for it, I'm aware that if I want to blame anyone for the ad system being set up in such a game-able way it's Google, and that really the party to blame are the insufferable bigots at NOM for buying the ads with those keywords in the first place.

And it probably makes me look horribly selfish, as a Plus user who's opened myself to ads from the beginning (sort of. I do use AdBlock so I rarely, if ever, see any), who's known from the beginning I have no control over the advertising that displays with my journal, to get bothered now that the hypothetical - the lack of control leading to something really objectionable - is a reality, in a way that specifically offends me. But here I am, offended, and uncomfortable.

I think my account's old enough I could revert to Basic, and lose most of my icons :( get rid of the ads on my LJ specifically. But right now I'm uncomfortable with the idea as a whole - that as long as LJ uses an ad service it doesn't control, as long as LJ doesn't take an ideological stance on every single political issue likely to see an ad, this might keep happening. I'm not sure I really want any part of a service that's willing to take the chance it will make money promoting discrimination against me.

So...I don't know. That said, I definitely can't afford a paid account, so if anyone's got a spare invite code to toss my way...?*puppy eyes*

(I know I'm late to the party on the anti-gay ad thing. I keep turning it over in my head and being kind of okay with it, and then not, and then...over and over and over. So.)

*waves*

Thanks to the fabulous fizzyblogic, I made good on my Dreamwidth waffling. I'm not sure exactly how I'll handle LJ-ing - right now I'm set to crosspost by default, with comments disabled, but we'll see what I do in the future. Rather takes the point out of leaving if I keep posting, dunnit, lol? I'll probably end up ditching my LJ completely, posting-wise, and just keep up with people/comms via feed reader. We'll see.