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Apr 11, 2017 14:48

Crushed by what I've just learned about what LJ has now become. I created a DreamWidth, username still slammerkinbabe*, and am trying to export my LJ to there. I haven't been using this regularly for a long-ass time anyway but I still have no words for how sad I am that my happy place has turned into this. My future plans wrt whether I'll delete ( Read more... )

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ext_4088315 April 11 2017, 23:20:40 UTC

Heyday livejournal was so great. Really, it was the only internet culture I ever really liked. Every time I think of LJ's sad slide into disuse and shittiness it's a new wave of sadness.

Be well.

-Moondispatches

z8z8 April 11 2017, 23:44:00 UTC

If you defriended me on LJ,does that mean you don't want me to add you on Dreamwidth?
Etiquette is a difficult proposition for me at times lol

ganimede April 12 2017, 20:59:25 UTC

I'm sorry you're leaving LJ :( I'm not intending on going anywhere until I absolutely have to.

ganimede April 12 2017, 21:08:28 UTC

I guess I haven't read as much about it in as much detail as I maybe should have but... don't we have to? Isn't it against the new TOS to be openly queer on LJ? I mean I'm sure enforcement will be selective and scattershot, but I can't hang around somewhere knowing I either have to duck back into a closet I exited 15 years ago or worry my whole journal is going to be deleted without warning.

I'm really going to miss LJ though. Even though I've barely been here for years. It was so lovely when I did stop by to see, in addition to the few friends who had stayed, the same layout and the same mood theme and the same 172 icons I never had to pare down because I have a permanent account. The icon thing is really making me sad -- I have such fond memories of making them over the years. I'd love to stay here but I don't see how I can.

slammerkinbabe April 12 2017, 21:10:26 UTC

... that was me.

ganimede April 12 2017, 21:21:32 UTC

I am not entirely sure. The TOS are incredibly confusing but there's the added fact that they possibly don't apply to paid accounts. There's nothing specifically in the TOS that says you can't be openly queer on LJ. I think the relevant law in Russia is that of promoting LGBT relationships to minors, so people under the age of 18. I'm not sure but maybe marking your journal as containing adult concepts might help get round that one.

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