From Siderea on LJ:

[numb3r_5ev3n]

 (Relevant post: http://siderea.livejournal.com/1330197.html)

The following is a copy-paste of the above linked post:
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Tue, Dec. 27th, 2016, 11:53 pm 
[LJ, DW, Admin] Why Now

I am hearing credible reports that:

• The LJ servers are now in Russia.

• There has been a massive uptick in migrations from Cyrillic users into Dreamwidth.

I am hearing unverified reports that:

• There is some sort of political purge of accounts happening in the Cyrillic side of LJ.

See previous post for sources, evidence.

I am aware that:

• LJ has been in financial trouble for a while.

I am concerned that:

• The LJ servers may now be under the legal jurisdiction of Russia, not the US.

• The Russian government may now have unfettered access to all LJ content, especially including friends-locked content.

• That LJ users in Russia are at risk of persecution and prosecution for content (e.g. LGBT content, pro-Ukraine content) posted under lock in the previous 10+ years.

• That LJ users around the world may find their accounts deleted and their access terminated because of their political sentiments.

• That non-state actors – i.e. criminals – in Russia may wind up with access to locked LJ content, in any a number of scenarios, ranging from "SUP sells our data to stay afloat" to "disgruntled employee decides to moonlight" to "government agent shares data got by the state with the Russian mafia for kicks/favors" to "hackers".

• That the Kremlin will drive enough Russosphere users off LJ, that it will no longer be financially viable for SUP, and collapse economically, causing the lights to go out on LJ abruptly.

You now know what I know about the situation.

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So yeah. Anyone who hasn't migrated their LJ to DW might want to consider doing that. It sucks, some of us have been on LJ since the early oughties, but the shakier things get with Russia, the more that backing up to DW looks like a good idea. This post was made on my DW, btw. I have technically been crossposting over to LJ from DW since 2009.

You can also archive your LJ using LJarchive: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/ 

Comments

[sabotabby]

I have a DW for this reason, though I haven't been good about crossposting 'cause lazy.

[numb3r-5ev3n.livejournal.com]

There's a setting you can configure that does it for you.
link:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=othersites

[sabotabby]

I've got that set up, but it goes the wrong way. I'm primarily posting to LJ, not DW. I suppose I could just start posting everything to DW, but I have filters and stuff on LJ, and so it gets complicated.

[numb3r-5ev3n.livejournal.com]

(Whoops accidentally posted under one of my other accounts that I was migrating earlier.) Yeah, I managed to recreate my filters in 2009 during the time I was basically sitting in a data center which was being rapidly deprovisioned before they shut us down and shitcanned everyone who was left at that satellite location...so I had a lot of time on my hands.

[rialian.livejournal.com]

===Yep...Moved most of my posting to DW back when it started up, and use the crossposting.

===One of the issues has been (of course) that you get folk posting to both, and people deciding which side they are following, and unfollow on the other. (and, of course, the split in comments and possible interesting conversations that never happen, due to that split).

===I find it interesting that there was a sudden interest in LJ expressed on FB, things started perking up...then all this happened. I am hoping that it gets more folks active on DW, and that can take off even more.

[numb3r-5ev3n.livejournal.com]

LOL that was me. I was actually pushing for a "Return to LJ! End the Bloggers' Diaspora!" earlier this year...and then Trump won and the fact that the servers are owned by a Russian company/in russia was suddenly a problem.