Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Friday, 7 February 2025

Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I followed a guy who was working in Antarctica. It was awesome.

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was massive in my circles for Dress Diaries. Step by step records of whatever insane thing you were sewing. And cats.

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      • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t imagine anyone other than public figures or scientist types having one.

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s an LJ?

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  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lo these many years ago, there was Livejournal

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And it was Good. Until it wasn’t. And everybody fucked off to Dreamwidth for about 2 minutes.

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh. Was it a public or a private thing? I’ve never heard of this.

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      • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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      • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    tenor.com/9Lcd.gif

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  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you don’t know, you can’t afford it

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When I saw LJ I thought Torana but the rest didn’t make sense. Curiosity then came upon me.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still do t know what it is :/

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Both a personal blog and a community discussion group.

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Like an online blog and you chose who gets to see it.

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      • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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