Goodbye LJ, I guess

[lizbee]

I know there's a strong element of shutting the barn door many, many years after the horse took off, but I'm very much inclined to delete my LJ account outright in a week or so. My stuff is all backed up here, and I only use LJ to follow a couple of people who haven't migrated elsewhere -- if I have to, I can just follow them via RSS and hope they've enabled anon comments.

(I am rather amused by the notion that my blogging has EVER been covered by the First Amendment, and I doubt there would be any issues for me using a service based in Russia, but, you know.)

Most concerningly, this observation from mme_hardy:

LJ no longer allows access to its https site when browsing/posting, which means that any information you send to that site is readable by every other site that cares to eavesdrop. This means that anything you post under friendslock is still being read by any site that chooses to spy on Livejournal communications; you can safely assume that at least one Russian-government entity is.

I just double-checked, and the payment page *is* protected by https, so that at least should be secure.

I really hope the Russian government enjoys my thoughts on Nickelodeon cartoons, YA fiction and the weather, and I hope they'll find a way to cope without my input.

Comments

[ironed_orchid]

I currently still crosspost even if all my posts there are locked, but I'm inclined to stop doing that now.

I'll still keep my account alive so I can read the 5 or 6 people I know who still post there (and whom I've long ago given up on convincing them to switch to here).

[cedara]

Yeah, the no-longer-https thing is why I signed up at diaspora. I currently have a paid account at LJ, but that may change at the end of this year, if I find a decent hosting site for pics.

[jamethiel]

I can't see that I've posted anything too revealing but... yeah. Not happy. I'm not going to delete my account altogether: they'll have backups cached etc so no point and there are a few comms I still actively use over there but I'm going to stop cross-posting.

[infiniteviking]

Yeah, it's really concerning. :/ I wish I could mass-delete private posts over there while leaving public ones, but don't remember enough about lj to know offhand if that's possible (probably not).