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"Myspace, Livejournal, Tumblr, early Twitter, were all totally attention-seeking but more geared towards sharing ideas vs. a performative wasteland of content. Obviously now everything is commodified, manipulated by algorithms, and full of boring broccoli heads trying to go viral."
"I'm an older-ish millennial (1986) and I witnessed in my teen and college years the slow, steady progression from long form blogging (Livejournal, Xanga, etc.) towards "microblogging", that is shorter and shorter character limits, means of self-expressing etc."
"four or five years later on livejournal(?) someone told a story about a big house fire in home town. i think the theme was local ghost/urban legend stories. it was like, this house burned down, only the father survived."
"I'd write more but I just saw a guy in a dogecoin tshirt and I need to post about it to my livejournal"
"Tiktok, when it's not remixing a meme or even when it does, on the other hand feels a lot more ad hoc, risque, and personal. Almost a reversion to Livejournal."