Just testing and posting and dumping and querying

[temperance14]

Just testing to see about posting on Dreamwidth--and if I can cross post to Live Journal.
Don't believe I can do it the other way around.
Presume I should cross-post to Live Journal just to test if anyone sees it.
I'm not sure if anyone is still using their dreamwidth accounts.
Or their Live Journal accounts.

I'm sorry we lost so many to Facebook.
It cost us the conversations that we had at LiveJournal.
It cost us a lot of privacy.
It cost us a lot of deeper conversations.

It's faster. I'm frustrated by the fact that many people would rather use a FB post or a FB (blech) Messenger contact than text or email. So much more can be done with email.

What's really frustrating is that every other possible form of communication, even just electronic forms, are lost to FB.

I've spent so much time, over the years, reminding people how I can be contacted. More convenient ways to contact me. Ways that may be more convenient for them.
It's all down to FB.

And now we are cursing & blaming FB. The very friends (no, not you if you are reading this), who said, "Everyone is moving to FB" (the same folks who rolled their eyes whenever they heard someone say everyone does X)--those same people are now cussing out FB and the "sheep" that all followed the path there.
Forgetting who were the shepherds that insisted they wouldn't use any other conduit for communication.

Sorry. Feeling old tired and isolated tonight.
Even my therapist is through TalkSpace--and after over a year, I'm wondering why I'm doing this (oh yes, because I have no time, and little privacy space, to talk to a real person, nor the cash for it.)

You know what I miss? Diary writing. And I can blame that on Facebook. That started falling off with LiveJournal.
It's been great talking to y'all over the last...13 years? But sometimes you miss being honest about what has happened to you--and that can't happen with "real" conversation. I have to be honest with myself about that.

I think what I miss is being honest, and viperish with myself, and about others.
And I need to do that before I can talk with people, old or new, whether I keep friends or jettison the others--or even just try to talk to a therapist and see if she was trained to handle what I'm dealing with.

I've got to talk to me. Honestly.
Later if we're any of us are still here. (Still not sure what will happen with LiveJournal--must find out who currently owns it.)

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[ocelot]

I write stuff in a Google doc. Sometimes it ends up here, or on another site where I'm totally anonymous. Sometimes it ends up here after a delay, some day when I'm feeling exhitionist. Sometimes it doesn't.

And yes, there are many things I do like about FB, but I do wish it handed ended the LJ era.

[tams]

hugs!

I know what you mean. I'm still remember the days of LJ where it was wide open to talk about whatever you wanted and even have single threads to people without having to deal with messaging. It was fun to come home and talk to someone in long form instead of a small chat window.

I 'm struggling to keep up with this journal. Sometimes I just want to sit down and write in it, most other times I'm just to tired to look at another screen. I know as this year progresses I will need it more and more, so I haven't completely checked out of it.

Plus at this point in time FB is really only good for me to check up on videos and games that I really shouldn't be spending time on lol.

[serendipity17]

I'm still here. The few that were active LJers that I kept up with *are* here too--the shortform FB becomes longform DW. I'm logging my tea cupboard here because it's easier than Steepster. Steepster is *interesting* though, because it is an example of how spam and bots can almost drag a site into uselessness, but a small group of active participants can keep it somewhat meaningful.

I miss the expectation that everybody would be keeping up on LJ daily so that we could pick up conversations at parties. I ask my spouse if he has seen A Thing on FB and often that answer is "no"--the power of the sorting algorithms and our non-overlapping acquaintance lists. When I share articles, it's often because somebody on a small-circle-of-acquaintance--like HS folks-- posted something that the Ren-Dickens-SFBA circles should see.

When FB dredges up a "memory" of an article I posted, I usually delete the post. I spend deliberate time seeing if Random and I have any mutuals other than the current-wall-friend before whumping down the Logic Stick and omfg there are people who need metaphorical whumping. I dislike how conflict-filled things can get. I despair of emojis having supplanted emoticons. I kind of hate how conversations on messenger don't open or close, they just sort of drift off, ghosting instead of goodbye.


I enjoyed your work stories, and I enjoy your writing style.

[serendipity17]

Wikipedia notes that the difficulty with LJ is not that the ownership changed, but that they started enforcing Russian Law and if you can't read the Russian-language TOS, you're out of luck, because that one is the legally-binding one. Fanfic sites with 3000+ daily visitors would no longer be anonymous, and would be disallowed from smut and tawdry content.


"Section: Russian jurisdiction

"On April 4, 2017, LiveJournal significantly modified its terms of use, making the service subject to Russian law. The new terms prohibit users from posting "advertising and/or political solicitation materials", or performing any actions that are "contradictory to the laws of the Russian Federation". The terms also state that users are subject to Article 10.2 of the Federal Act of the Russian Federation No. 149, which dictates that blogs with more than 3000 daily visitors are classified as media outlets and may not be published anonymously, are responsible for the dissemination of unverified information, and are restricted from posting pornography, obscene language, or "extremist materials". These laws have been described as "draconian" and restricting free expression by Western media.

"Additionally, only the Russian-language version of the terms of service are considered legally-binding. The new terms prompted wide concern from users who believed that their content would now be targeted under Russian censorship policies, including the country's "gay propaganda" law."