new entry: "old and new"
https://xkeeper.dreamwidth.org/4855.html
did you know that dreamwidth has open registrations? if you want to keep a livejournal-like journal with me, sign up. it's lonely over there.
to continue, lj-likes are nice because there's post privacy and a sense of community.
compare to the mid-00s trend of using e.g. blogspot or wordpress for journaling: no (or very cumbersome) privacy protections, commenting was a mess of disjointed systems (and still is)
to be honest, i wonder where lj would have been if russia hadn't bought it out to kill it
@Xkeeper I spent a long time beating Wordpress's privacy tools into submission using a plugin that the developer keeps trying to kill and seemingly can't because the thing he wants to replace it with is paid-for-basic-features and his old one is free. Can confirm, it's highly unpleasant.
On the flipside, my content is now mine and I don't have to worry about my hosting service going away when the Russians buy it. I just have to worry about being undiscoverable on the internet.
@literorrery tradeoffs, tradeoffs...
on the flip side, you have to worry about maintaining your stuff, too, whereas i can offload all of that by using dreamwidth.
it's all up to preference, of course.
@Xkeeper Legit! I crosspost to DreamWidth, to be sure, but most of the people I knew who used LJ disbanded from long-form media when it died, rather than transition. The ones who made the leap weren't enough to sustain a community there, and now most of the people I know are more skittish of "centralized ownership" than they are of "writing more than 140 characters at a time."
@literorrery Yeah, same. Even I only got back onto that train recently, though that was more personal and less Russia.
Crossposting is probably the best solution, especially if you can keep the privacy levels consistent. Possible to use it as a backup, too (keep WP offline/hidden unless the other site goes down, then unhide it to reveal all the old content)