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Jan. 22nd, 2019 06:44 amAfter reading an article about the demise of Livejoural, I feel like posting here even more. I appreciate that the creators of this place keep it running for us few diehards. I think I'll go poke the bookFace folks again.
I remember starting LJ back in the day.. early adopter.. in the sense that I remember it before it was commercial. Lost that poor account. And really all of it is water under the bridge these days.
Oddly enough, or maybe not so oddly as I make more time to get to know myself better, I find it interesting that I never managed to build new community with LJ. It was there mostly to keep up with existing community. I know lots of people that built up piles of friends from coast to coast using LJ. Was never what I did.
These days, I have friends coast to coast for other reasons.. and I'm hoping to get more of them participating in things other than Facebook. I appreciate that Facebook is, for most folks, the low hanging fruit. The easy way to link, and Facebook makes it that way. They are very good at getting people attached to their services.
I remember early on in the battle on Facebook the short-lived interest among my groups with Diaspora. LOVELY little idea, and still is, honestly. The idea of building independent pods and having them link. Solves a lot of issues and a lot of problems. But again.. adoption. Rough thing to do. Even for me. :-)
I'm considering popping back enough on the posting front of Facebook to crosspost stuff I do other places. Can't really convince folks to come with me. But... I dunno...
It's a tough nut.
Nevertheless, I'm here. And I'm posting. And I want to post. And I guess those that are here will see them. And those that aren't won't. Water wet. Sun hot.
I remember starting LJ back in the day.. early adopter.. in the sense that I remember it before it was commercial. Lost that poor account. And really all of it is water under the bridge these days.
Oddly enough, or maybe not so oddly as I make more time to get to know myself better, I find it interesting that I never managed to build new community with LJ. It was there mostly to keep up with existing community. I know lots of people that built up piles of friends from coast to coast using LJ. Was never what I did.
These days, I have friends coast to coast for other reasons.. and I'm hoping to get more of them participating in things other than Facebook. I appreciate that Facebook is, for most folks, the low hanging fruit. The easy way to link, and Facebook makes it that way. They are very good at getting people attached to their services.
I remember early on in the battle on Facebook the short-lived interest among my groups with Diaspora. LOVELY little idea, and still is, honestly. The idea of building independent pods and having them link. Solves a lot of issues and a lot of problems. But again.. adoption. Rough thing to do. Even for me. :-)
I'm considering popping back enough on the posting front of Facebook to crosspost stuff I do other places. Can't really convince folks to come with me. But... I dunno...
It's a tough nut.
Nevertheless, I'm here. And I'm posting. And I want to post. And I guess those that are here will see them. And those that aren't won't. Water wet. Sun hot.