Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

As a sort of tag to my friending meme promo (which is still going on btw!) Dreamwidth has posted some notes about successfully importing to Dreamwidth from LiveJournal: https://mobile.twitter.com/dreamwidth/status/1501280756068495361

The short version: LJ is intermittently blocking the IP addresses Dreamwidth crawls from, possibly because of people misinputting passwords. There’s not a ton they can do about that unfortunately but trying again later will usually work

@Lady thank you for sharing this experience

@Lady ?

@cicatriz_jdr AWS-[place] going down would seem like such a conspiracy theory if it weren’t something that happened on a regular basis

@ljwrites yeah its definitely not an easy move to make! Hopefully you’re able to back up all the important bits before the site does actually breathe its last on you

@Lady yeah and I’m coming up blank on any good zelda coms, or I would have just said ‘subscribe via RSS for a bit and then decide for yourself’

@Lady I think you have much more specific blogging preferences than yr average dw-er?

I mostly use it as my fandom hub, for which it can either be great or a ghost town bc the userbase is small enough that its a roll of the dice whether you find an active community for any particular interest

@ljwrites there was some rumblings before Ukraine bc LJ decided to break all the crossposters (maybe a month ago?) & it turns out the site looks a lot emptier without the ghosts of everyone who left for [insert LJ clone] years ago

But then Ukraine happened, and LJ is owned by Rambler Media Group, who is owned by Sberbank, who is owned by the Russian gov’t. So now everyone wants to get out quick

If you’re on dreamwidth or want to be on dreamwidth & are looking for accounts to follow, there’s a friending meme going on right now!

Targeted at the current LJ exodus but welcome to all: https://friending-memes.dreamwidth.org/1083.html

@alpine_thistle ??????

@compostablespork oh thats an unpleasant thing to find under your lawn! I hope it isn’t too horribly cumbersome to dig up

@twistylittlepassages oh thats a neat trick! & your skin wasnt bothered by the pH change?

Cannot believe I tutored stats without touching excel for two years only to get tricked into it by the library archives

if I get three layers of excel recursion deep you have permission to confiscate my computer