LJ/DW origins.

[rogueslayer452]

Taken from thefridayfive:

01. How long ago did you join LJ (or DW)?
I joined LiveJournal in 2003, back when they had invite codes. I joined DW in 2012 when many LJ users were starting to migrate, or at least backup their journals, due to a lot of issues concerning the LJ ownership and handling of things, and I wanted to keep in touch with those on my LJ flist. I didn't do anything with my DW account until 2022 when I finally transferred my journal entries to DW and deleted my old LJ account.

02. How did you find out about LJ (or DW)?
I can't really remember with LJ, my sister had an account before I did (she helped get the invite code for me to join back then) and I would search randomly and read random journal entries and things, so I'm sure it was from word-of-mouth that way. With DW it was through LJ, since it was created as an alternative solution in case LJ went down.

03. If someone introduced you to LJ (or DW), is s/he still on your friends list?
Yes.

04. Have you introduced anyone to LJ (or DW)?
Only people online that I know from other platforms, not in real life.

05. Is your LJ (or DW) public or friends only, and why?
Mostly public, I keep things regarding my personal life and some other things that discuss serious things behind locked entries, but otherwise it's relatively public. Although I have been reconsidering this due to the invasive rise of AI scrapping.

Comments

[elizalavelle]

Oh AI scraping is something I hadn't thought about with blogging but of course that's a thing. I need that AI crash to come quickly.

[rogueslayer452]

The fact that it's everywhere and constantly being pushed onto us is bizarre and infuriating, like I question now if a post or an image/video is real or done with genAI and that shouldn't be happening. So yeah, I hope it crashes soon, too. It might take a while because it's become the latest trend that has infected every aspect of our lives now, more so than NFTs were when that was the biggest scam being pushed.

[elizalavelle]

Agree. AI is everywhere, including in most jobs.

I see it at work and it's not helpful anytime they try to make AI happen it's a disaster because there's not a thing exactly that management are saying they want it to do. That's because the thing they want it to do is replace their staff and they're still smart enough to realize if they say "we hope to have you fired within 6 months" that people will quit ahead of that schedule. It's such a weird feeling to go to work knowing some of the company wants to fire everyone. You can't have a nice work vibe when that's underlying things.

I suspect the economic aspect will keep AI propped up for way longer than it should be because so many wealthy people want it to work and are investing in it and no one cares if regular people lose their money but it becomes a big deal if all of the investor class does.

I have many AI rants but will recommend this week's Some More News episode which gets into it a bit and I really liked their take: https://youtu.be/WJmu17hy_4U?si=LK5KVzxKUF-MDHfy