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Haha! My LJ just turned 18. Not logging to those evil Terms of Service you bigoted fuckers.
My first taste of performative social media. Huge "Let me tell you what I want you to think I'm thinking" vibes. And one friend doing a PhD who was actually interesting.
I followed a guy who was working in Antarctica. It was awesome.
It was massive in my circles for Dress Diaries. Step by step records of whatever insane thing you were sewing. And cats.
It was really good for that sort of creative thing. Blending photos and (lengthy) written descriptions or instructions is something Reddit isn't anywhere near as good at
I can't imagine anyone other than public figures or scientist types having one.
What's an LJ?
Lo these many years ago, there was Livejournal
And it was Good. Until it wasn't. And everybody fucked off to Dreamwidth for about 2 minutes.
Oh. Was it a public or a private thing? I've never heard of this.
By default public, but you could "friends-lock" things- either individual entries or the entire blog- to limit it to a selected audience
People varied in how public they wanted it to be. Mine was very private.
Oh. Like a personal diary. Until someone found it then it become public and everyone laughed at you.
It was a sort of combination of private diary, public column, and something like Reddit or here (because you could join communities with the same ID, which could themselves be either public or private).
Surprisingly, LJ was really good for long-form writing. Multimedia projects, too.
Livejournal was one of the proto-social media platforms that predates web 2.0. it was even around before MySpace. Think Geocities era. Nothing's ever emerged like it since. It's the grandma of Tumblr and the like I guess.
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If you don't know, you can't afford it
When I saw LJ I thought Torana but the rest didn't make sense. Curiosity then came upon me.
I still don’t know what it is :/
Both a personal blog and a community discussion group.
Like an online blog and you chose who gets to see it.
Yes, the point of my post was that at one point it got bought out by a Russian company. Suddenly you couldn't log in without agreeing to zero LGBT content. This being unacceptable to many, the platform was abandoned en mass. I still get notifications because I can't delete without logging in.
Fuck that. Arseholes