They build it up just to burn it back down

[sovay]

Hello, Dreamwidth.

Technically I have been here since 2013, but then LJ was home. It is no longer. I have not yet deleted my livejournal of the last thirteen years, but I expect to post to Dreamwidth only from now on. (I'll have to reword my Patreon.) It's a little disorienting. I don't usually spend so time on this side. Everything looks familiar, but not quite right. I'll have to get this journal looking more like itself. At the moment I just seem to feel very sad. I have never lost an online community before—much less one with as much emotional history as LJ—and it really does feel like a death or an exile. So much of my coming back to life was on LJ, my relationships with the people who are now my husband and my lover. It was the first place I was known as Sovay. I expected to stick with it until they turned out the lights, but instead somebody stole the lightbulbs and asked me to sign a confession I couldn't read to get them back. It might have been collateral damage to strong-arming someone else, but it was damage and done. I might be grieving that a while.

But in the meantime I'm here. So who's here with me? Sound off.

Comments

[umadoshi]

I've considered DW my online home since I migrated here however many years ago (which was admittedly made easier by the fact that my then-primary fandom of many years had basically gone dormant and a lot of people I knew had drifted off), but part of me still mourns what LJ used to be like. And I'm still just helplessly angry about how consistently and repeatedly they've treated the users badly while people tried so hard to hang on to what we/they had there. ;_;

Much sympathy, is what I'm saying. It's so hard. *hugs* I hope you come to find that here feels like a home too, but here is its own thing, and losing LJ is a LOSS, either way.

[kore]

Even tho I left LJ a while back it's like some little part of me has never gotten over it. It was my first real online home, where I met a lot of people who are still among my very closest friends, where I really connected with people far more than on Facebook (yeech) or Twitter or any other online platform....Every time it screws over its userbase more and more people leave, it's still awful.

[sovay]

And I'm still just helplessly angry about how consistently and repeatedly they've treated the users badly while people tried so hard to hang on to what we/they had there.

People did try. It was not rewarded. Exploited, if anything. I am especially angry that I was seeing a recent swell of people making the commitment to post and interact more often and not let LJ die and welp.

I hope you come to find that here feels like a home too, but here is its own thing, and losing LJ is a LOSS, either way.

Thank you.

*hugs*