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Livejournal - backing up entries
Mar. 8th, 2022 08:32 pm I know a lot of us here started out on Livejournal, 10, 15, even 20 years ago, and LJ was were I first properly got into fandom back in 2006. Watching the Torchwood fandom and its communities grow and grow, posting my first fic to be shared online when we were still only half way through series 1 airing for the first time.
I know that a lot of you will be aware that back in 2016 LJ was purchased by a company based in Russia, and that the following year the servers were also move there.
So in light of current events, there is some concern about LJ getting blocked, going down or even ceasing to be.
There is more on it where I've shared this post fromTumblr.
https://thesilversun.tumblr.com/post/678188902492913664/so-theres-a-decent-chance-russia-will-disconnect
I don't know what will happen. I don't think any of us do. Even a month ago, I think few would being thinking that the situation would become as it is now.
So of there are people who you are only in contact with via LJ and who you want to stay in contact with it might be worth talking to them now and finding out they are on any other platforms.
A lot of people migrated journal here, a lot of people backed up fic to AO3 after the events of Strike Through and Bold Through, but not everything. If there is fic there or meta anything you can't bear to lose saving copies now might be something to consider.
I'm not really around LJ anymore, I'm trying to use my DW a bit more, but I'm primarily found on Twitter and AO3 these days.
But it was my first fandom home, and to paraphrase a certain Captain:
Being here, I've seen things I never dreamt I'd see. Met people I never would have known. And I wouldn't change that for the world.
I know that a lot of you will be aware that back in 2016 LJ was purchased by a company based in Russia, and that the following year the servers were also move there.
So in light of current events, there is some concern about LJ getting blocked, going down or even ceasing to be.
There is more on it where I've shared this post fromTumblr.
https://thesilversun.tumblr.com/post/678188902492913664/so-theres-a-decent-chance-russia-will-disconnect
I don't know what will happen. I don't think any of us do. Even a month ago, I think few would being thinking that the situation would become as it is now.
So of there are people who you are only in contact with via LJ and who you want to stay in contact with it might be worth talking to them now and finding out they are on any other platforms.
A lot of people migrated journal here, a lot of people backed up fic to AO3 after the events of Strike Through and Bold Through, but not everything. If there is fic there or meta anything you can't bear to lose saving copies now might be something to consider.
I'm not really around LJ anymore, I'm trying to use my DW a bit more, but I'm primarily found on Twitter and AO3 these days.
But it was my first fandom home, and to paraphrase a certain Captain:
Being here, I've seen things I never dreamt I'd see. Met people I never would have known. And I wouldn't change that for the world.