Farewell to LJ

[clauderainsrm]

Livejournal has a long history of mass departures. Some have been momentary blips. Others were a series of cuts that helped the long form of social media bleed out

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[beautyofgrey]

Agh! Okay, I completely respect this, but I am on a differently named account over there, I suspect others may have this issue?

[clauderainsrm]

You can (1) post with your LJ account. DW allows any open ID (like LJ) account, at least the last time I checked and (2) just let me know what name you are using.

[emo_snal]

Is there a source about the " owners, who are a bank with direct ties to Putin's inner circle" ? I just did some googling but was unable to confirm that? All I've been able to determine is that Livejournal is owned by SUP Media of which the only significant owner I can find evidence of is the liberal business paper Kommersant owns a "significant minority"?

I'm a very big supporter of the Ukrainian cause, but I also love livejournal and its been an important part of my life for over 20 years, so I'm very torn about this. I suppose until I figure out the ownership situation and/or make the hard decision, the least I can do is start posting to livejournal the many reports about the Ukraine situation that I have thus far been making to my facebook wall.

[clauderainsrm]

SUP was purchased by Rambler in 2013.

Current owner of Rambler is Sber - https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-oligarch-herman-gref-sberbank-added-us-sanctions-list-2022-3

I'm posting a time line of ownership changes, with links, on DW.

[garnigal]

I'm glad LJIdol is moving.