I remember writing an online diary of my life there, and then, first slowly then with speed, transforming this diary into a blog. I remember how excited I was when I got an invite code from Darren back in June of 2002. I remember reading Tom’s LiveJournal, and the LiveJournals of others, back in early 2002 when I was so desperate to connect with anyone. LiveJournal was always been there for me. Rfmcdpei has been around for a month short of fifteen years. My regrets about this are not especially profound ones, characterized much more by wistfulness and nostalgia than by serious regret. I am losing nothing as a consequence of this. Back in October 2012, I blogged about how I had moved away from LiveJournal as a primary blog, towards Dreamwidth for LiveJournal-like social networking and to WordPress for the more blog-like functions. Therefore, anyone who is not dependent on LiveJournal is leaving a social network that appears to be fatally compromised. LiveJournal, which happens to be based in Russia as a consequence of a long series of business decisions (bad decisions, I would argue, ones which kept LiveJournal from emerging as a lasting social network of worldwide scope), is subject. Russia, as a classical dictatorship, wants to be able to restrict what people write about within its sphere, to do away with anonymity and to limit the range of permissible subject matter. That this agreement is not available, not in a legally binding form and not in a well-translated form, in the English language made the exodus inevitable. I did join the rush on account of the new user agreement unleashed earlier this week, of course.Īny number of news sources, like the Daily Dot and Boing Boing and Gizmodo and Charlie Stross at Autopope, have written at great length about the new terms of service agreement. This post, however, is the first post that I will not be crossposting from Dreamwidth over to LiveJournal, and no other post shall follow. Maybe I will bring it back temporarily, so as to convert it to some kind of personal docment via BlogBooker, or perhaps I will restore it in the name of minimizing link rot on the Internet and to continue to be able to read what few (ever fewer) people still write only on LiveJournal. I do allow for the possibility that I might change my mind. User rfmcdpei is no longer active on this site. Almost two hours ago, I deleted my LiveJournal.
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