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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2016-12-27 08:05 pm

more people seem to be moving from LJ to Dreamwidth

So, first: if you're on my LJ friendslist and are moving to DW, please let me know your username(s) so I can update my subscription and filters.

Second: The moves seem to be due to concern about the LJ servers being moved to Russia, and some Russian and/or pro-Ukrainian journals being deleted. (Googling also got me a Tweet from months ago saying the servers were being moved then, and warning about possible security risks.)

I found a bit about this in comments on a [site community profile] dw_maintenance post about now-resolved server problems; some of that is in Russian, and some of the rest links to failfandom-anon, so take it for what it's worth. (The connection is that migrating journals from LJ to DW was putting a significant load on the server.)
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[personal profile] conuly 2016-12-28 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Russia already moved its servers to Russia, and right away at least 100 journals were... deleted? Not sure.
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[personal profile] conuly 2016-12-28 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
D'oh, of course it's LJ that moved, not Russia :)