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        And it was Good. Until it wasn’t. And everybody fucked off to Dreamwidth for about 2 minutes.

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          By default public, but you could “friends-lock” things- either individual entries or the entire blog- to limit it to a selected audience

          People varied in how public they wanted it to be. Mine was very private.

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            Oh. Like a personal diary. Until someone found it then it become public and everyone laughed at you.

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              It was a sort of combination of private diary, public column, and something like Reddit or here (because you could join communities with the same ID, which could themselves be either public or private).

              Surprisingly, LJ was really good for long-form writing. Multimedia projects, too.

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      I still don’t know what it is :/

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        Both a personal blog and a community discussion group.

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          Yes, the point of my post was that at one point it got bought out by a Russian company. Suddenly you couldn’t log in without agreeing to zero LGBT content. This being unacceptable to many, the platform was abandoned en mass. I still get notifications because I can’t delete without logging in.

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        When I saw LJ I thought Torana but the rest didn’t make sense. Curiosity then came upon me.