An end of an era, but a new beginning.
Mar. 10th, 2022 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rogueslayer452Well, I did it. I finally deleted my LJ account.
It's bittersweet, to say the least, but I cannot lie to say that there's a bit of a relief to it. I think I was holding on as I was because LJ was the first online website I ever joined. I created it in 2003 when I was still in high school, so it was a huge part of my life. But of course it's less about the place in particular and more of the people and community that it had, and once that started dwindling away I was deluding myself that somehow people would find their way back, and some did trickle in here and there but mostly the sense of community that I loved was no longer active. And, well, with everything going on there is a sense of unease of staying, something I've been contemplating for a while, too, just in a general sense.
So it is sad in a way, like an end of an era, but I don't regret it.
I guess I mourn what could eventually be lost in the process, should anything happen, because there's so much fandom history stored on LJ that the possibility of those things not being preserved and archived would be a shame. I know some are trying to find ways of archiving certain communities, but there's so much and so little time to do so. Even I tried to save some of the things I had in my memories, but there was so much content that it was impossible to do so.
But I have my entries/comments imported, I have followed my fellow ljfriends who have also migrated to DW, and I'm finding newer friends along the way. So that's good. It's just a continuation of what I was already doing, but like a fresh start in a sense.
(On a random note: I'm still amazed that for all the years I was on LJ I was able to maintain the "Dystopia" skin for entirety of the site, even when they tried to get me to the newest site updates I never did. So I had the "old LJ" layout despite them attempting to look and have additions similar to other social media platforms. I guess that was by pure luck. Heh.)
It's bittersweet, to say the least, but I cannot lie to say that there's a bit of a relief to it. I think I was holding on as I was because LJ was the first online website I ever joined. I created it in 2003 when I was still in high school, so it was a huge part of my life. But of course it's less about the place in particular and more of the people and community that it had, and once that started dwindling away I was deluding myself that somehow people would find their way back, and some did trickle in here and there but mostly the sense of community that I loved was no longer active. And, well, with everything going on there is a sense of unease of staying, something I've been contemplating for a while, too, just in a general sense.
So it is sad in a way, like an end of an era, but I don't regret it.
I guess I mourn what could eventually be lost in the process, should anything happen, because there's so much fandom history stored on LJ that the possibility of those things not being preserved and archived would be a shame. I know some are trying to find ways of archiving certain communities, but there's so much and so little time to do so. Even I tried to save some of the things I had in my memories, but there was so much content that it was impossible to do so.
But I have my entries/comments imported, I have followed my fellow ljfriends who have also migrated to DW, and I'm finding newer friends along the way. So that's good. It's just a continuation of what I was already doing, but like a fresh start in a sense.
(On a random note: I'm still amazed that for all the years I was on LJ I was able to maintain the "Dystopia" skin for entirety of the site, even when they tried to get me to the newest site updates I never did. So I had the "old LJ" layout despite them attempting to look and have additions similar to other social media platforms. I guess that was by pure luck. Heh.)
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Date: 2022-03-11 09:33 am (UTC)I maintained the Dystopia LJ, too!
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Date: 2022-03-11 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-12 07:51 am (UTC)I'm happy that a lot of people did make the move to DW. There are a few that I wish still would but I don't think they will.
May I ask, what was your reasoning for purging?
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Date: 2022-03-12 09:43 am (UTC)A good chunk of my LJ flist was inactive anyway, sadly, I just never had the heart to defriend any of them in case they came back even after years of being away. I tried to see if any of them even left contact links or if they were on DW, but not many (and the ones that are here haven't updated in years, which again is sad). But a good portion of those who were active I managed to friend here on DW, so that's good. I just hope that whoever I didn't catch and who are going to be migrating here I'll find again.
May I ask, what was your reasoning for purging?
Honestly, just peace of mind, really.
With the anxiety and uncertainty of the situation at hand, if the site was to be firewalled I felt much better having the control and say in what I wanted to do with my account, and if nothing actually happen, well, I was already kind of feeling disconnected from LJ as it was for quite a while and I think, after successfully importing things and adding as many people as I could (while giving people time to migrate over to DW themselves), I felt it was time to let it go.