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Conspicuously missing, as it always is from these sorts of articles: Livejournal. A quieter, more thoughtful sort of social media, built around long posts, the
by egypturnash 7y ago
Conspicuously missing, as it always is from these sorts of articles: Livejournal. A quieter, more thoughtful sort of social media, built around long posts, the occasional essay, threaded comments, and much more sophisticated privacy management than most modern sites ever touch, which was happily used by GenX non-techies.
Sold to a succession of owners, it ended up in the hands of
Russians after it established a strong audience there. I still have an account there but it’s dormant because I never agreed to the new terms and conditions that forbid discussion of LGBTQ issues.
- wainstead 7y agoI'll add sixdegrees.com to the "missing" list, which may have been the first social media site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com
- mcny 7y ago> Livejournal The last time someone brought up livejournal, there was discussion about a code fork of LiveJournal called Dreamwidth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamwidth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamwidth You might want to take a look there if you haven't already. > Dreamwidth is an online journal service based on the LiveJournal codebase. It is a code fork of the original service, set up by ex-LiveJournal staff[2] Denise Paolucci and Mark Smith, born out of a desire for a new community based on open access, transparency, freedom and respect.[3]
- antidaily 7y agoThat Last 50 images posted to Live Journal website was my /r/pics.
- MadWombat 7y agoLiveJournal has not failed yet. It is still a fairly large network in Russia. It did fail in the American market and was eventually bought out by a Russian company.