presenting an archive of vitriol, negativity, and embarrassment circa 2008; it's fascinating to see my thoughts from so long ago. #livejournal#blogging
Sharing a little bit of personal #InternetHistory … for a period of time, #LiveJournal (or simply “LJ”) was one of the very thriving places to be on the #Internet . And for about four years, it was my home on the Web. I’m grateful for that time… even if I moved on many years ago!
currently listening to: 36 minutes of dungeon synth played over field recordings captured outside Babes of Bablyon in downtown Memphis at 2am on a Friday
@onepict@anildash I wasn't in fandom on LJ, was in the #goth community, which thrived there in the early aughts.
While people have survived and found friends again after the split, it wasn't a good time. It was the same, probably worse really, with G+.
Interestingly have found some people from both spaces have migrated to Fedi, but it's still hard to find folk, and many who were on LJ in quite tight knit communities that I speak to in other places (Discord, Signal) still have the opinion that Fedi isn't worth their time as their networks are not here (yet). The fragmentation was deeply damaging, most people just went to Facebook, and even now, far too many can't see the importance of Federation to our social health and safety.
I feel the only way things will truly change is for legal intervention, which is coming to the EU, and why Threads, I think, was built, in anticipation of this legal hurdle for monopolist players.
Ignore my angsty internet withdrawal.Gosh, anyone remember what it used to be like when Old #Livejournal used to be down for half an hour, oh the wailing, rending of garments, and gnashing of teeth
The real problem with Blogs by Phone is the service lock in. We need to update the #activitypub API to federate the calling and reading of posts to family members. cc @anildash
@feditips@bitflipped yes, aware of all these things. You can't migrate anything and guarantee the links will update, beyond a certain point, and have already been playing around with the WordPress ActivityPub plugin, but it's not playing nice with my shared hosting so waiting to see if that kind of issue gets resolved eventually. Importing posts from one site to another will always be a copy, for me it would be incredibly valuable to have that long timeline even with issues. Back in the #LiveJournal days this issue was discussed and dealt with in various ways by LJ clones.
#LiveJournal has no iphone app. They have an android app and one hosted on rustore... which I don't know. I stopped using LiveJournal when it got bought up by a Russian company. Maybe the rustore is a Russian app store?
The current state of #Birdsite reminds of #livejournal before the end. A series of bad business decisions leading to account after account going dark, connections scattering to different platforms, many never to be heard from again, or just going dormant as people find something else as a focus, leaving behind a weird sense of hollow loss. I still have my old lj account and occasionally post to it, but nobody ever comments any more. That is where #MadLonnie is taking the old service now.
It's my 23rd anniversary on #LiveJournal. Unfortunately, I got no one left on LJ to share it with, since everyone's left and the place is drowning in ads. So I'll just share it here.
I haven't posted there in years, but those were the best pre-social media days.
Wow! Linking to someone who rhymes with Flott Banselman apparently gets you noticed (looks at the 40+ notifications).
To jump off that point, #blogging is important, even if you think you don't have anything novel to say. You do, actually: because you are you, and no one else, so your words are novel by definition.
I've abandoned stuff I put on #Facebook, exported stuff from #LiveJournal and #Twitter, and anything I make from here on out is only on my own server/domain.
A thread of my Fandom Elder Izzy memes. Expect profanities 😈
So far there are 18 of these, but if the inspiration hits, I might make more at some point. For many of these, I owe thanks to Lux (https://luxbeatrice.carrd.co) for being my muse.
You know, back in the day, when fanfiction dot net was still the main fanfiction site, when it was down, people would just post their new fics/chapters on LJ. Good times...
How about if we take some time off from talking about Threads (TM) the Instagram/Facebook/Meta App, and instead talk about the best #interfaces for displaying and building a conversation #thread on the internet?
In principle, it should be relatively straightforward to create a Mastodon / ActivityPub client that would organize threads in a manner more similar to #Livejournal / #Dreamwidth / Euphoria (https://euphoria.io/room/welcome/), but building something like that would present new problems because views of thread / conversation structure would differ by client.
@actuallyautistic@audhd
Was deeply engaged in a difficult conversation today when a book caught my attention across the room. “Is that Unmasking Autism? I read that earlier this year.” It was an optional opening for optional disclosure. It changed the questions he felt comfortable asking, changed how I provided education, and it ended be a deeply satisfying and helpful exchange. Today was a real win. #autistic#actuallyautistic#autism@bookstodon
Apparently today's my 21st anniversary on LiveJournal. I blogged regularly there until the Russians bought it, and never managed to get back in the habit anywhere else.
Are there #Mastodon clients already that let you hide all the boosts and/or replies from the feed? I don't see how people don't see that having that all visible is incompatible with chronological feeds. Or, I don't know, limiting one person boosts to 2 a day. I used to be able to comfortably read a feed of 150 people in #LiveJournal, people didn't repost that often there and the slogan 'make original content!' meant "post your images and not work of others".
Mostly have to read from the browser.
This weekend I was part of a great discussion about platform migration in #fandom. What's happening now with #TwitterMigration (and all types of online communities!) has both some similarities and differences. But if you're interested in one example of these kinds of migrations (e.g. #usenet to #livejournal to #tumblr and #ao3 in #fanfiction communities) here's my video essay about this research! https://youtu.be/xzQO-vkX3q0