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Leaving LiveJournal
9 years ago
After 14.5 years I've decided it's time to cancel my livejournal account. The decision was partly that very few people I know use it. At this point it's just some Bronies and Ursula Vernon. The main reason, as I learned via 
sdwolf is that the Russian company that owns LJ moved everything to servers in their own country. So they are no longer under any U.S. privacy/protection laws (not that such things have stopped our own NSA) and firmly in the hands with a highly unethical leader who led a hacking effort to screw over the US election in favor of his buddy Trump.
While it is unlikely they would use information from my lowly blog for any nefarious purposes, it was enough for me to say "fuck it, I'm outta here."
I will spend the next several days making a backup of my entries. A slow process as I don't want to save them in XML and being near broke I can't afford BlogBooker's rates to copy multiple years.
After that I shall delete the account and...decide what to do next. I don't know if I'd do another "here's stuff that happened to me today" blog, but at
Joaquin_N_Memphis's suggestion I may open a WordPress to put the random thoughts I get that are too big for Twitter.
sdwolf is that the Russian company that owns LJ moved everything to servers in their own country. So they are no longer under any U.S. privacy/protection laws (not that such things have stopped our own NSA) and firmly in the hands with a highly unethical leader who led a hacking effort to screw over the US election in favor of his buddy Trump. While it is unlikely they would use information from my lowly blog for any nefarious purposes, it was enough for me to say "fuck it, I'm outta here."
I will spend the next several days making a backup of my entries. A slow process as I don't want to save them in XML and being near broke I can't afford BlogBooker's rates to copy multiple years.
After that I shall delete the account and...decide what to do next. I don't know if I'd do another "here's stuff that happened to me today" blog, but at
Joaquin_N_Memphis's suggestion I may open a WordPress to put the random thoughts I get that are too big for Twitter.
I'm an...organized person. Not completely OCD, but I'd want a format where it's clear where the start is, and it's easy to navigate. And identify the exact date/time a posting was made.
Like...I love The SetUp Wizard but it's a pain to locate the first post to read through from the beginning.
And I haven't decided what I want. Do I still want a place to put random stuff that happened to me, a diary...or do I want somewhere to put detailed essays that are too big for Twitter and may not be furry-relevant for here.
Make sure to post about what you end up doing, so folks can continue to follow. :)
Also, I had no idea that particular tumblr is a thing, and I too wish to start it from the beginning!
Sometimes it's OCD, sometimes it's just wanting to be organized and efficient.