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.

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[moon_custafer]

I set up this account the first time everyone on LJ began to talk about leaving (I forget if it was Strikethrough or if it was when the site was first sold to a Russian company), but didn’t fully move over until a few years ago when the mass exodus happened, at which time I closed my LJ account. It’s easier to transfer from one platform to another if most of the people you follow are doing the same.

[sabotabby]

I did a similar pattern.

And most of the people either did come over or at least didn't stay on LJ. But it's still a different vibe.