Bah

[soemand]

LiveJournal’s decline didn’t happen in a vacuum. Many longtime users trace the real turning point to the platform’s sale to Russian ownership, which shifted its cultural center of gravity and pushed much of its original community elsewhere. By the time the dust settled, the site’s momentum was already gone. What we’re seeing now isn’t a slow fade but a death rattle triggered by the most recent round of policy changes—changes that feel less like evolution and more like the final death of a platform that once defined online expression. LiveJournal mattered, but its era ended long before today’s exodus.

I walked away ages ago.