Livejournal to Ban LGBTQ Content

[peddlestools]

Mitch Wagner writes, "LiveJournal is a venerable online community that predates Facebook and even blogging. It got acquired by a Russian company a few years ago, but some of its American and British users hung on, including sf and fantasy writers and fans. Lately, I know one of my friends was scrambling to leave, but I'd been too busy to look into

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[lightframes]

I wonder if they're going to start shutting down people's accounts.

Has anybody used Dreamwidth? If so what has been your experience with it?

[pairatime]

I've never been a consistent user but I've had an account since 09 and used it off and on. It's very much long the old (mid-2000s) LJ but with better support. The few times I've had problems I've gotten answers and help much faster on DW than I ever did with LJ. and it's fairly user friendly. I like their set up a bit better honestly. The big problem with DW for me has been many of the communities and people I interact with hadn't gone over so dealing with both was always a chore but now it seems all the active communities I'm part of are at least talking about WD so I'm relooking at my account.

You should at least check it out if you want to have a back up plan.

[lightframes]

Thanks.

[radiantsoul]

The site is run by passionate and clever people. Take a look at the length of time support request go unanswered on dw vs lj. Look at the level of management engagement on the news posts.

Problem is dw seems to be so much quieter.

[selina_kyle]

It may not be "celebrity news" but it affects the ONTD community & its users.

Ridiculous.

I won't be migrating because I don't use my journal anymore and have this account solely to participate in the communities I'm a member of.

[ohmiya_sg]

Yeah, same.

[sarahsaturn]

That's fucked up. It's bizarre that there are still places in the world where they're backwards enough to think that being gay is wrong.

Livejournal's almost dead to begin with and now it'll be even more inactive. The few people who still use this site won't put up with it.

[stainedfeathers]

It's so much fucking worse than that. They've started rounding up LGBTQ and throwing them in literal concentration camps.

[yamamanama]

Kadyrov needs to drink some polonium tea.

[suzycat]

ONTD is a comm full of queer people and other minorities. They need to give this real thought.

I have migrated to DW and still cross post but I'm ceasing paid membership and all my content is locked.

[300mirov]

Горе-то какое, батюшки мои!) как дальше жить???
Т.е., когда сервера находились не в РФ, то жилось легче? А почему? Свобода слова?
Ну а кто вам ее ограничивает? Пишите о чем хотите, но с соблюдением законов РФ.
Ведь россияне соблюдают законы сидя в ФБ, Инстаграмма, что там еще есть?)
Ссыкуны)

[amw]

I mostly agree. Facebook in particular has a shameful "decency" policy that disallows any kind of nudity or sexual content that in countries outside of America is considered completely acceptable. We all make compromises when we use services run by puritans. Fortunately up until now SUP has proven itself less likely to delete content than Facebook in this regard.