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"I asked Chat GPT" — well, I asked Mother Nature and she said your brain and soul are rotting inside of you.

Back up your LJs!

I know this post is for a very small audience here on Tumblr but some of my oldest friends I met on LiveJournal are still here, so I'm making it anyway just in case.

But there have been some changes at LJ recently that do not bode well at all. Rahaeli made a thread about it on bsky with some more worrying details. For a bit of background on this, LJ is surprisingly big in Russia. Like way more than on the western side, and it's been owned by a Russian company for a long time now (it wasn't always - there was a big controversy when LJ got sold to the Russians back in the day).

The Russian side of LJ dropped a very big change on Dec 29th without warning on their users, essentially making it so they'd have to register their ID or bank info with LJ to post or comment. Any posts from people outside of Russia, or without Cyrillic services turned on, are invisible and can't be interacted with by people inside Russia. It's nearly impossible to turn Cyrillic services on if you're not in Russia either, so there's a big wall now between both sets of users. Rahaeli speculates that this could mean the Russian company that owns LJ could be considering selling off or just shutting down the western side of LJ soon, thus why they're sectioning it off. There's been no mention of this on the western LJ news comms or anything which is also worrying.

Fandom's moved on from LJ now, but that doesn't mean that a large chunk of old fandom didn't take place there before, and if LJ does go down then tons of fic, fanart, meta, communities, kinkmemes, discussions, rp, goes down with it. Everything up in smoke! I think people underestimate sometimes just how much stuff went on there. LJ being dead is much different than LJ being gone... the thought of it really disappearing after all this time breaks my heart. I've spent so much of my life there, even after everyone else left. ;_;

But how to do your backups? Dreamwidth is an easy answer as an LJ clone, with an automated importer that'll snag all your stuff and move it over for you. Another tool I've been using is ljArchive, specifically this fork of it which will also save comments and communities, although it won't get userpics. There's also LJ Archivr, although that one costs money, and I think some others are mentioned in the bsky thread. Whatever you pick, I'd do it sooner than later.

#i know there was a lot of old mori community stuff on LJ pls pass on to mori folk

thisisalovestry

file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

insomniparty

#really need to absorb this mindset better #because ultimately that's one of the main things that had me mostly give up on trying to dress mori #i work from home and sometimes do an errand day #so what's the point of dressing up...#well that and the back pain from tights or wearing more than one layer of anything around my waist lol #i need to reassess what i want out of it #reference the more casual looks with pants or no tights/multi-skirts...

bakwaaas

I miss the days when you could see a cool image and didn’t have to analyse it to see if it’s actually AI

The alliums are blooming again 💜 They didn't last year, I think they got too weak from the encroaching grass choking them out. I'm planning on moving them this fall (❁´◡`❁)

#nature #gardening #cottagecore #photography #naturecore #grandmacore #cottage charm #nature aesthetic #alliums #flowers #farmcore #gardenblr #gardencore #my photos #lyra brie's curiosities

I really wanted to draw the Skiddo outfit that @pokemonlolitaproject put together (〜￣▽￣)〜

I couldn't quite get all the little jewelry bits in, but I did my best!

pokemonlolitaproject

As requested by lyrabrie a coord inspired by Pokemon #672 Skiddo

#pokemon #skiddo #ahhh tysm i love it!!#that bag is super cute

goannafr

do u guys collect stuff (irl)? tell me what u collect

#goats!#toys/figures not living ones

pondwitch

i love a fog. i love a woods.

chippyyyz

I love to munch a fresh baked goods

Asparagus and frog eggs. Spring is here!

It's Earth Day today so if I'm not too tired I might go out and do my annual garbage cleanup around the property. It's amazing what blows in over the winter.

#earth day #nature #gardening #cottagecore #photography #naturecore #grandmacore #cottage charm #nature aesthetic #farmcore #gardenblr #gardencore #my photos #lyra brie's curiosities

Went thrift shopping today and got a few decor pieces for the bathroom I’m slowly working on. The metal fish shelf brackets in particular I have been going absolutely FERAL about since I saw them on the shelf. They’re beautiful. They’re perfect. They were only $7!

#thrift haul #thrifting #thrift shopping #sorry for the poor quality photo #people who don’t like nautical bathrooms dni