[ SECRET POST #6558 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6558 ⌋

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No, it was the Russians.

[(Anonymous)]

The subject is a bit of a joke, but also serious.

LJ was on a downhill slide and the plans the company had were awful and not what a lot of the fandom userbase wanted. There were so many posts of discussions on where to go and DW was still invite only I believe. Plus there was a chunk of people that had beef with some of the creators of DW. That and tumblr was a big draw with gifs and photos and generally a lot more low effort posting.

So you are partly right, LJ lost the spark due to the owners changing things up (and the strikethroughs and ddos attacks etc) and tumblr was right there waiting. But I think there was just a lot of upheaval in fandom and the internet at large during the time too.

And now fandom has changed so much I can't see it ever changing back to the more LJ style. Which is a shame because I think you had better actual discussions and circles and friends there, but it could just be that I am very biased with my own fun times during the LJ heydays.

Re: No, it was the Russians.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I also wish that the fandom at large would revert back to journal sites. I let people know DW exists anytime it's relevant to what they want.

Re: No, it was the Russians.

[(Anonymous)]

Me too, nonny. Nine times out of ten, I have no use for images on the internet, and my reading speed is insanely fast, so ... the old-style journal sites were perfect for me.

I feel like on DW, people haven't managed to establish the same trust and expectation that if they say something vulnerable, most of the people hearing what they say will understand them (or at least not judge them), and so the perception is that the "safe" level of conversation is also a fairly impersonal one.

Re: No, it was the Russians.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. And YMMV, but personally I wanted to stay on LJ or just jump to DW. I snagged an invite to DW in 2010, but my account collected dust because no one on my FList then used it. My friends at the time and fandoms I was in moved to Tumblr, so I reluctantly packed my bags to there. I disliked Tumblr then and still do now, but hardly anyone I know uses DW and my fandom or non-fandom interests don't have much of a presence here. The short time I used LJ was 5x better than the 13 years I wasted on Tumblr, geez.

Re: No, it was the Russians.

[(Anonymous)]

You sound like me, because my experience is the exact same.

Re: No, it was the Russians.

[(Anonymous)]

Ironically enough fandom Russians fled not to a dreamwidth or tumblr but to a Russian site. Because of course people choose their own language more.

Re: No, it was the Russians.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember when the first Strikethrough happened, I wasn't on livejournal, but I remember how scared people were.