We're still here

One thing I've seen people say on Facebook ever since I created my account on the site is that they miss LiveJournal. I'm so tired of it! LiveJournal never went anywhere, and the people who say it are the ones who left a long time before the site was sold and a lot of people migrated to or mirrored on Dreamwidth. There's a group on Facebook called Livejournal Lives that has almost 4,000 people and it had two posts in 2025 and none in 2024. And someone a lot of people from LJ know even considered making a similar site, but private and thus even less likely to have anyone posting anything.

All of which is to say, LiveJournal didn't go anywhere, and the people who miss it should resume posting. I get it, there's no critical mass any more. But there can't be unless people start telling their stories again, whether or not they get much attention. It's more important than ever, now that other sites and apps are becoming overrun with slop and their UIs make it harder to see just the accounts you want to.

If you want the internet to be good, you have to make good internet. (And I fully acknowledge that the people who I should be saying this to aren't here to read it.)