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I understand why it's nice - esp. on mobile phones - to have posts no longer than* X* length. Browsability matters!
However, limiting the default characters significantly limits #mastodon adoption, as it is inappropriate for what they want to do... which could be everything from #journalism to #writing to #fanfiction.

But devs solved this problem 25 years ago on #livejournal, with the lj-cut tag.
Hey, @Gargron ... a time-tested #opensource solution that we KNOW works!
livejournal.com/support/faq/75

woke up to a funny memory from more than 20 years ago when I went on a solo trip to Czech Republic, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

at the time I was still a pretty regular #livejournal user and met some mutuals who lived in various countries over there on my trip. one funny character, an idiosyncratic illustrator whose name I can't remember now, met me in Prague on one night and we went walking around. at one point we stopped at that bridge with a view of Prague castle...

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💙 Flashback Friday #7 💙 – LiveJournal

Ah, LiveJournal. The birthplace of fandom rants, angsty poetry, and cryptic song lyrics in your post titles. LiveJournal was more than just a blogging platform—it was a cultural cornerstone for internet communities before the rise of social media.

Read the full post here: smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%

@indieweb @smallweb @neocities ##indieweb ##LiveJournal ##nostalgia ##oldweb ##smallweb ##webdev

Any active #LiveJournal users out there?

My account still exists but I haven't logged in since it became a Russian-owned site way back when.

Before I reset my password, I want to know if they offer an export option so I can save my posts and, ideally, import them to my WordPress site.

Feel free to boost if you have a techie following!

Hey @jayeless, just stumbled on your blog piece from a year ago;

"I wish there was a federated, ActivityPub-based LiveJournal ... a blog, where I can make occasional friends-only posts (not private or password-protected posts), and take advantage of ActivityPub for authenticating my friends. A Dreamwidth-like distinction between true “friends” and more distant “subscribers” wouldn’t go amiss ..."

jayeless.net/2024/02/wishing-f

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Jayeless.netI wish there was a federated, …I wish there was a federated, ActivityPub-based LiveJournal. I know there’s stuff like write.as (external link) but it’s not really what I’m envisioning. What I basically want is a blog, where I can make occasional friends-only posts (not private or …

You know how certain people are always complaining about their childhood being ruined? Consider this:
#LiveJournal is basically owned by the Russian authoritarian government;
#Twitter is basically owned by Nazis;
#Tumblr is owned by basically asholes…
So who’s ruining who’s childhood, huh?

An #introduction:

Northern Irish (he/him), living in SW England. Largely #socialist politics. Dad, husband, #lawyer. Wrote a beer blog but now I don’t drink.

Had a #Livejournal once. In a way, this platform reminds me of that, which is nice.

Last few years I’ve been doing a lot of #drawing and listening to a lot of #music. Currently I draw #albumcovers and #portraits, using #brushpen and #watercolour. I’m not very good but that’s okay.

See the hashtag #OnThisDayInMusic for more of these.

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I always felt most comfortable talking about my life's details on (pre-Russian) #LiveJournal, because attention to users' privacy pervaded its feature set, from its gated entrance to its extensively customizable filters.

Also, there was little emphasis on "attention economy" metrics or features.

I truly miss the culture and fellowship of that site, back in the day. Creating and consuming long-form writing as a daily practice.