delete yr blog

[sabotabby]

After years of people telling me to do it, I deleted my LJ.

Feel sad about it, but it was a security problem (my account got hacked several times) and increasingly a pain to cross-post. There's a bare minimum of folks there who don't post here, and so I ended up just having to scroll through it every morning for the one or two entries that I might want to see. And let's be honest, even if I never go back to Eastern Europe, I just don't want Putin's goons knowing that much about my life.

It feels weird. LJ was my primary internet home for so long, and it was there I met most of the folks who would be most influential on my life and the way I think. I had a super nostalgic discussion about it on FB last night and apparently I influenced a lot of people too.



But you know. I'm still here. In case you need your Sabotabby Ranting About Politics, Etc. fix. I have many things to say about how FB and Twitter have destroyed the internet, so I'm not going to give up old school blogging any time soon.

Comments

[annie_r]

I haven't deleted my LJ, but I set all the entries to private (except the last one saying I'm on DW only) and not cross-posting, and changed my password and email again. I keep the account open so I can still nostalgically read the LJs of friends who are long gone. Maybe I will delete my private posts since they got migrated over here. That feels really hard and final, though. I love LJ and DW as a concept and a community. Filtered entries, who doesn't want those? On DW I don't even filter entries, they're all friends-only or private since I don't know that many folks and am not having personal drama with anyone. And I paper-journal also, but find the inability to search/tag my handwritten scrawl a little annoying.

[franklanguage]

I should probably add you on LJ; since I had the perspecuity to buy a Permanent account on LJ early on, it will take a real catastrophe to cause me to delete my account there.

[annie_r]

Are you crossposting, or keeping them separate? I made a reading filter on LJ for folks not on DW, but there are hardly any new posts.

[franklanguage]

I'm generally crossposting, although the post I made yesterday refused to crosspost.

Never mind.