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Soviet LJ, downtime, and why sticking around matters
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shadowwolf13 posted earlier today about the recent outages on LJ, and her words started me thinking about our collective attitudes regarding this service.
I'm certainly a user who's had lots of complaints about LJ over the 10+ years of my blogging here. I've fussed about my issues to management, with no discernible responses or satisfaction. I'm one of those using Dreamwidth as a back-up. I have serious concerns about the fading US support by this now-Russian-owned blog site.
But. I'm still here, and I still have no intention of leaving. Most of my motives are selfish..I'm comfortable here, I have a community here, and no other platform I've experienced offers as much to me as what I find here.
And as a paying member, one that's ponied up the truly tiny bit of money requested, I realized today that what I'm also doing is helping to financially support freedom of speech for Russian bloggers. Y'all probably know that when we have huge disruptions in our service, it's due to DDOS attacks, inspired by folks who dislike what some Russian bloggers are posting.
It's obnoxious and the lack of communication from Soviet LJ to its user base is maddening to me - I only just tonight learned about http://livejournal.livejournal.com, which tells us more than http://news.livejournal.com, and Shadow pointed out that there's a Twitter feed as well, which was new information to me, though I do subscribe to its Facebook feed. My scattered point is that while I don't like the delayed info that's given, as seems to be hard coded into LJ (really, most of the time I've been here, the owners haven't communicated all that well) (which is some damned fine irony, huh?)...there IS info out there, and Soviet LJ gives us more ways to get that info than was the case in the past. Which impresses me.
I think it's very short-sighted to say that LJ is not relevant, that other social media sites have greener grass. I like the grass here just fine, thank you, and I especially like the idea that our corner of the blogging universe gives a bunch of political dissidents a place to express themselves.
For that alone, Soviet LJ can have my $5 or so every two months.
And for an example of what I'm talking about..
http://news.livejournal.com/141108.html
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