Like you I've turned off automatic payments to LJ (the b'stards implemented this change a couple of days after my last yearly payment went through!). I'll let my account lapse to a basic one and probably deleted most of my posts over there (they're imported into DW and I have backups).

I've seen several friends move over to DreamWidth in the last year or so for various reasons, including something to do with logging links followed to certain sites for advertising purposes. Those didn't affect me, so I stayed, but my journal is locked for a reason. I don't want it to be public. I trust my friends, but I no longer trust LJ.

I'd be even happier if a DW paid account cost about the same as an LJ one, and if they had image hosting. However I have at least three other places I can put pictures and link to them, so that will have to do for now.