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Hey there.
Hi. I'm a refugee from Facebook.
20 years ago I was a young man and just getting into paganism when LiveJournal was a thing. I had 3 or 4 good years on LJ and its pagan communities. Then everyone started going to Facebook (which I never liked), and not long afterward LJ was sold to the Russians which accelerated the abandoning-LJ-for Facebook trend, making LJ a veritable ghost town.
So I am kind of excited to get back to an LJ-like journal.
Anyway, I am a Norse pagan of sorts. Read my bio and if you like what you see, feel free to add me.
20 years ago I was a young man and just getting into paganism when LiveJournal was a thing. I had 3 or 4 good years on LJ and its pagan communities. Then everyone started going to Facebook (which I never liked), and not long afterward LJ was sold to the Russians which accelerated the abandoning-LJ-for Facebook trend, making LJ a veritable ghost town.
So I am kind of excited to get back to an LJ-like journal.
Anyway, I am a Norse pagan of sorts. Read my bio and if you like what you see, feel free to add me.
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Also, thank you for summing up the history of the LJ to Facebook transition. That... was almost exactly my experience. Although eventually I left Facebook for Mastodon, which is *also* not as good as LJ/DW.
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I have never tried Mastadon.
I was on Redditt for a while. There are less memes and people actually do have conversations, so that is a point in its favor. However, the median age of the average user seems to be 20 years younger than me. I had problems connecting with people. Heck, I often didn't even understand their slang. They made me feel old. *sigh*
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Mastodon is okay, given that it is a Twitter clone. It's nice to not be beholden to a big company. I don't have a sense of the age range. I feel like there are a fair number of Millennials, but I am a Millennial, so that might be selection bias.