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The last few weeks have been... hard, for reasons that I've already posted about and for some reasons that I hope to post about in the next few days. It isn't even that I was busy (though, some days, I definitely was) - it's that I have been feeling emotionally drained. At times, getting up, getting out and getting work done took effort and a lot of gritted teeth. I feel like I'm only now starting to come up for air. I mean, I'm far from out of the woods, but at least I am walking in that general direction now.
And so, as part of the effort to regain something resembling normacy, I wanted to do a belated post about Livejournal's 20th anniversary. It is, shall we saw, an interesting anniversary to mark, given how far LJ drifted from something it was as relatively recently as 10 years ago, for better or for worse. And I can read Russian, and I always had one foot in LJ-Russia. But one of the major reasons I keep going is that nothing - not Tumblr, not Blogspot, not Wordpress, and certainly not Twitter or Facebook - lends itself so readily to long post about life and things. Nothing has come even close to replicating the friends lock/privacy lock. Or using icons to convey moods. Or adding songs and moods to add subtext/context (except, in fairness, for LJ-derivatives like Dreamwidth). Not that I've never posted some deeply personal stuff elsewhere... But it's not quite the same thing as posting about it on LJ. Doesn't feel the same.
And so, here's hoping LJ will last for a while longer. In spite for Rosskomnadzor's and United Russia's best efforts