pompelonJun 25, 2023

Once upon a time, there was a community called Little Details on LiveJournal. It was a place where fiction writers of all kinds could ask for help with their fact-checking and research. It was a huge, amazing resource before the collapse of LiveJournal took it down.

I recently decided to try resurrecting it on Dreamwidth. It's now open and ready for questions. Come check it out, and boost if you're so inclined!

https://little-details.dreamwidth.org/

#writing #fanfiction #fandom #dreamwidth

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Show threadCharlie Merry
@pompelon @menelion Isn't live journal still a thing? I know basically no one uses it now, but I was able to read through someone's old posts only a couple years ago.
Jun 26, 2023 at 2:00pmWeb
Show threadAndré PolykanineJun 26, 2023
@arqeria @pompelon yes, it is a thing actually, and someone even uses it.
Show threadpompelonJun 26, 2023
@arqeria @menelion LiveJournal as it was is no longer a thing. It was destroyed by successive terrible changes in ownership, which eventually drove away most of the membership of the original community, including me. The platform is technically still there, but the community collapsed
Show threadCharlie MerryJun 26, 2023
@pompelon @menelion What actually changed? I don’t really know any of the history here.
Show threadLilyoftheRallyJun 26, 2023
@arqeria @pompelon @menelion It exists for archival purposes but is unusable for many in fandom.
Show threadCharlie MerryJun 26, 2023
@LilyoftheRally @pompelon @menelion I was thinking more in terms of what changed in the lead up to the Exodus.
Show threadLilyoftheRallyJun 26, 2023
@arqeria @pompelon @menelion I remember Russian ownership started in 2007, and some folks older than me moved to other blogging sites then. I left in the early 2010s myself (I actively used it from 2005 until then as a teen/young adult).
Show threadpompelonJun 26, 2023
@arqeria LiveJournal began as an early web passion project with an open, collaborative culture; it was sold to a new adminstration that was more restrictive, capricious, and corporate; then eventually it was sold to Russian owners, and now is mostly hosted in Russia and beholden to Russian content laws. It is not a friendly place for creatives or those who care about, say, human rights.