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Initial migration: LiveJournal was purchased by a Russian company. Users did not believe their data would be safe.
by meristem 6y ago
Initial migration: LiveJournal was purchased by a Russian company. Users did not believe their data would be safe.
- duskwuff 6y agoAnd a massive leak of plaintext (!) passwords last year [1] would indicate that users were correct. [1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/26-million-livejournal-credentials-leaked-online-sold-on-the-dark-web/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/26-million-livejournal-credent...
- filmgirlcw 6y agoAnd even before that, there was this great purging of fanfic and other communities from LiveJournal by Six Apart (the then owners) that had people looking for alternatives, and you had a slew of LJ-alternatives built from the same code base pop up. My memory for internet dramas is fading a bit, but I think it was both the sale to SUP (the Russian company) and the content policy changes (and the fears were only stronger under a Russian owner) that led to the massive LiveJournal diasporas to Tumblr (which was new, launching in early 2007), and the various LJ clones/forks like Dreamwidth, JournalFen, DeadJournal, InsaneJournal, etc. As far as I know, Dreamwidth is the only one of the clones/forks that not only still exists, but is maintained, which is really incredible.