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.
Livejournal was one of the proto-social media platforms that predates web 2.0. it was even around before MySpace. Think Geocities era. Nothing’s ever emerged like it since. It’s the grandma of Tumblr and the like I guess.
Lo these many years ago, there was Livejournal
And it was Good. Until it wasn’t. And everybody fucked off to Dreamwidth for about 2 minutes.
Oh. Was it a public or a private thing? I’ve never heard of this.
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.
Oh. Like a personal diary. Until someone found it then it become public and everyone laughed at you.
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.
Livejournal was one of the proto-social media platforms that predates web 2.0. it was even around before MySpace. Think Geocities era. Nothing’s ever emerged like it since. It’s the grandma of Tumblr and the like I guess.