If you want to catch things early, start talking with your friends - what kind of site do you want for social media? Do you want everyone-sees-everything like Tumblr, or must-get-invited arrangements like Discord? Do you want reblogging like Twitter or threaded discussions like Dreamwidth? Forum-esque discussions like Proboards or BobaBoard, or chatroom-esque like Telegram? (Note that I'm not saying "like instagram" or "like Pinterest" - because I don't participate in those. The reason a migration hasn't already started is that there's no obvious next place to go. If a company with big lawyers decides "fanworks are bad for our public image," they start throwing around C&Ds, and it's easier to ban the fanficcers and fanartists and vidders and so on, than to send someone to court to challenge the copyright claims. It depends on which advertisers are footing the bills.) And a crackdown on "piracy" often means a purge of fanworks, because social media devs are not well-versed in copyright law, and besides, their goal isn't "allow all legal content." It's "reduce the chance that we get hit with a lawsuit" - and that's not based on whether the content is legal. (A man and a woman holding hands in a park, leaning in for a kiss, is not considered explicit. A "no explicit content" rule always means an attempt to purge queer content of any sort. Or they might "take a stand" against "piracy." And someone new to social media trends online (read: anyone who's only known one digital fandom home) might think "oh, they'll lose a few people, a few communities, but that won't affect everyone else - most people & most servers are vanilla-tame, so a no-explicit-content rule won't affect them." However, either Discord or Twitter could, at any time, decide they have too much "adult" content, and take steps to forbid it or make it harder to access. Discord skirted the edge of this with its "no 18+ servers on iOS" shift, but there are workarounds (.the servers are still available on desktop app/browser), so it avoided a mass migration. The next True Fandom Home will not appear until Discord or Twitter (or both) have a major purge. I still have some friends on here who have LiveJournals, I think? Heads up that migrating is still - hopefully - possible, if you haven’t done it already! Many imports are successfully finishing today, though, and we’re doing everything we can to keep that success percentage high.” Because LiveJournal is hosted inside Russia, if the rumors do turn out to be true, no one outside Russia will be able to reach it, so people are highly motivated to import their stuff right now!Īs we’ve noted in the last few posts, LiveJournal is intermittently blocking our access to their servers, so there’s a chance any import attempt might fail. We don’t have any information about the credibility of these rumors, and I personally believe it’s 50/50 odds at best that it’s true, but the rumor has prompted many people from LJ to back up their journals and communities to Dreamwidth, using our content importer, in the interests of preserving access to their data if the rumors are true. “As part of the current geopolitical crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, rumors are circulating that the Russian government intends to withdraw from the internet so that sites hosted inside Russia won’t be accessible from outside Russia.
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