Comments | kanzeon_2040: Who owns LiveJournal? And should I care?

kanzeon_2040

Who owns LiveJournal? And should I care?

Feb 24, 2022 04:16

Most of us who have been here for as long as I have know that LiveJournal was sold to a Russian company in 2007, and that LiveJournal's servers were moved to Russia in 2016. A lot of the long-term users quit when LiveJournal adopted new terms of service conforming with Russian law in 2017 ( Read more... )

livejournal, ethics, war war is stupid, dreamwidth

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matrixmann February 24 2022, 10:46:30 UTC

...I would say, save that crap of "solidarity" because nobody's going to hear you and give a damn about your act.
Facebook also doesn't care if some users leave it over its data collecting while a striking majority doesn't give a damn and can still be milked.

If there's... if there's anything, then rather do it for yourself (because you might not think it's right anymore) or because accessing the service becomes trouble. Or because suddenly censorship discovers you.

I'd still be on that side to not leave here until the lights are being switched off because - wherever you go, each big service worships any kind of idol that you'd want to drop on the ground of the ocean or commits some shady practices, questionable over their legality.
So, if you'd want to be really "morally pure", you had to open up your own self-hosted social network or platform to voice your thoughts through. - The world is constantly made of foul compromises and having to tolerate circumstances that don't suit personally...

kanzeon_2040 February 24 2022, 13:36:59 UTC

I agree the impact of my leaving LJ would be vanishingly small. It would also feel kind of silly to me, that when the US invaded Iraq I was looking for some way to boycott the US from inside, and now that Russia has invaded Ukraine I'd bring my online journal back to the US to boycott Russia. The foreign adventures of both countries suck ( ... )

matrixmann February 24 2022, 14:20:38 UTC

Just view it from that point of view...
On popular Western services, it's easy to boycott you, throw you out and disturb your business.
Here you are in the role of every cybercriminal - to be able to reach you, they've got to bring in some efforts first.
And this is the critical point which makes the most rather stop and forget about you.
It's like... you are in a legal black hole of the internet. Can do nearly anything you want.