Home and Away

[steepholm]

I'm rather stupid. It only just occurred to me that for many of my friends here the move of LJ's servers to Russia is also the move of LJ's servers out of their own country. The latter aspect could be quite as unsettling as the former, I imagine. Whereas for those of use who have always written our home thoughts from abroad it is, from that point of view, business as usual.

Of course I don't trust Putin's government, but nor do I Trump's. In terms of LGBTQI issues, for example, I'm not keen on either trawling my locked posts (no nor Mark Zuckerberg neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so). Although, to be honest, they'd probably be bored to death if they did.

Comments

[vixenofflames.livejournal.com]

Having been burned by the sudden disconnect of servers on GreatestJournal and losing around 4 years' worth of journal entries (and that was AFTER copying a couple of years of entries already back into LJ one at a time), I am simply copying my journal entries over to DW for peace of mind. I don't think Russia cares about me or my posts, I rarely post anything political anymore, and we're not safe from intrusion anywhere, but I DO care about my past entries existing and I'm just happy I can have them in two places.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Having a backup is eminently sensible and I back up my LJ offline using LJ Archive. I'm not entirely convinced that DW will outlast LJ, but it's unlikely that they'll both vanish at the same time, so having two copies is a good safety measure.