Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Friday, 7 February 2025
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 months agoWhat’s an LJ?
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 2 months ago
If you don’t know, you can’t afford it
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.
Duenan@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I still do t know what it is :/
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Both a personal blog and a community discussion group.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Like an online blog and you chose who gets to see it.
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.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Fuck that. Arseholes
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Lo these many years ago, there was Livejournal
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
And it was Good. Until it wasn’t. And everybody fucked off to Dreamwidth for about 2 minutes.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Oh. Was it a public or a private thing? I’ve never heard of this.
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.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Oh. Like a personal diary. Until someone found it then it become public and everyone laugh at you.
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.