The Friday Five for 20 March 2026: Dreamwidth and LiveJournal

#Dreamwidth #LiveJournal #blogging

Есть вполне реальная потребность сохранять-архивировать страницы из #ЖЖ, причём вместе с фотографиями.
Насколько я понимаю, готового решения для феди нет   
#livejournal

https://rajon-pride.livejournal.com/338939.html

Still trying to make up my mind what to use this platform for, non-artwise.

My positivity goes to #BlueSky.
My bile goes to #DeadBirdX when I deign to use it. (not bloody often.)
My private REAL thoughts go to #LiveJournal. (Yes, i still use it.)
I pick & choose for my personal #Blogspot.
Frankly, I do like #Mastodon, but in the grand scheme, it's superfluous.

Nice to have enough of a character count for complete, correctly spelled adult thoughts, though. I can't fault that!

What’s Past is No Blog

I decided to move all of my old LiveJournal archive category (452 posts!) to Private. These date from 2003 to 2008, before I moved to this self-hosted WordPress setup. I made most of them when I was still in college and connected to the SWIL current student and alumni community that used LJ heavily.

With the advent of generative AI for search, I’ve been seeing a significant uptick of traffic to these ancient posts, and when I’ve glanced at some of these, more than a few of them are extremely cringe. Nothing objectionable that I saw but I was just rude in how I expressed my opinions as an immature 21 year old. They’re a little bit embarrassing now, don’t all need to be public, and definitely don’t need to be harvested into some huge model somewhere. (Although that has assuredly already happened a bunch.)

Bulk Operation

There was probably a more automated one-shot query for marking all these posts as private, but I figured the safest was to paginate in the admin dashboard by category and move to private 20 posts at a time. 23 pages times 6 clicks took 10 minutes or so.

What’s Next?

I know a lot of people choose to set up autodeletion for posts, especially for microblogging, but in general I still want to keep my history up in the internet space I own. The hiding I’m doing today is primarily about scrubbing for my worst nerd-assertive posting, which I hope I grew out of a long time ago… but as an Elder Millennial, not long enough ago that it wasn’t frozen in amber on the public internet.

At some point I’d like to go through and republicize a bunch of these that are more along the themes of how I’ve been writing in recent years: pictures, recipes, tech topics, and so on. As long as my voice is nicer. 😂 I think there are some interesting topics from my first few years as a single dude in Boston for sure, including when I was a Big Brother. Restoring some posts, however, is a project for another day.

One silly sad thing about this post is that before I made it I happened to have exactly 1337 posts on the blog across all categories. I should have t3h c3lebr4ted. (Oops, there’s that immaturity again.)

Прощай, ЖЖ — cпасаем заметки Python-скриптом

В конце статьи Python скрипт для сохранения заметок . Последняя шлюпка с «Титаника», чтобы утащить с ЖЖ свои и чужие мысли на жесткий диск, пока «эффективные менеджеры» окончательно не пустили всё на дно . Я писал свои заметки в ЖЖ более 15 лет. Полтора десятилетия текстов, некоторые из которых даже влетали в топ главной страницы, теша мое самолюбие. Но всему есть предел. Декабрьские конвульсии администрации — введение сегрегации пользователей, разделение на касты и монетизация каждого вздоха — стали последней каплей. Это больше не дом, это режимный объект с пропусками. Я принял решение об уходе, забирая с собой всё, что нажил непосильной графоманией. Спасаем заметки

https://habr.com/ru/articles/983448/

#livejournal #сезон_ии_в_разработке #python #история_it #блоггинг

#LiveJournal might be deleting English-language accounts soon - info on Reddit and Bluesky

https://www.reddit.com/r/FanFiction/comments/1q3yw8c/psa_englishlanguage_livejournal_is_apparently_not/

https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mbebi2xfxc25

#blogs #fanfic #fanfiction #fandom

2011 Honda Pilot - Zombieland rule #32 - enjoy the little things - just knowing I can

#honda #pilot #diy #happiness #family #livejournal

https://mrflash818.livejournal.com/324922.html

RT @rahaeli

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mbebi2xfxc25