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I've added you to my DW circle.

Pros:
Run by people who seem competent with computers and are not assholes.
User input is solicited and often applied.
Good sense of community.
Tolerably effective.

Cons:
Much smaller audience, less networked; it's harder to attract attention and build momentum on DW.
Not nearly as well developed as LiveJournal. I really, really miss the Semagic client functions.
Requires an account code from a current DW member to get in.

Dreamwidth is decent now. It seems to be the best of the LJ clones. It is slowly getting better; I suspect it will be quite good by the time it's done. Every time LJ does something epically stupid, DW gets a fresh surge of members. *ponder* I don't think I've ever seen anyone say "I'm quitting DW and moving to LJ." The flow seems to be all LJ > DW.

The people who created LJ are no longer involved, far as I know -- it's been sold at least once. At least DW was designed as an alternative, looking at some bad examples (LJ not being the only blognet that people were annoyed with).