Okay, so finally I’m topping off my Dreamwidth backup (also the Movies in Fifteen Minutes journal/comm, and can I say I really wish I hadn’t thought I needed to separate that), so most of my #content is safe, probably. If I were to delete the LJ, the big problem is that all my images were also hosted there, so those would be broken, as well as any links within entries. (For, say, recaps, I had built in a sort of previous/next/main mini-infrastructure.) Fortunately, people ought to be able to maneuver the DW using entry tags; I’ll fix what I can as time goes on, but getting off LJ is more pressing than DW housekeeping.
I’m also nattering on about this on Twitter, but: I’m so mad I didn’t leave the moment LJ sold to a Russian company. At the time, it felt reactionary? “Oh, come on, it’s not the Cold War anymore.” I was afraid it was an unreasonable anti-Russia prejudice. I should have left when we heard years ago how they were oppressing speech, how they were oppressing LGBT people. I REALLY should have left when they moved the servers to Russia. But I had--I think many of us had--an extremely complacent (selfish?) sense that there was a different standard for the U.S. side of things. “It’s fine. We have years of content here, we have communities, is Dreamwidth even going to still be around years from now? Can you really trust ANY service to still be around? If nothing else, LJ has solid longevity and really good blogging/commenting functionality. It’s fine here. It’s fine.”
I finally grasped that it was not fine when the election and interference therein happened. I knew as of November 9 that I was going to have to leave. I hadn’t posted in months. I hadn’t been posting regularly at all for years. I kept meaning to back everything up and leave. Life happened; depression happened; I didn’t get around to it.
This is why I’m getting off my ass and leaving.
I don’t know if I need to straight-up delete everything. I feel a lot of trepidation about even logging in. But there’s pictures I need to save; I need to post a final entry pointing to where I’m going.
Whenever I’m on a podcast and they say “where can people find you,” I like to say, “I’m Cleolinda everywhere.” You can google “cleolinda” and you will basically get me. (The picture of the blonde girl that comes up for some reason isn’t me.) The last several years, I have been on Twitter regularly, sometimes livetweeting on a secondary account. Obviously I’m here. Ko-fi seems like a good tip jar site. I’m setting up a Patreon, once I can think what to put on it. I have created a Tiny Letter account, if you’d like to keep track of me via email. Here are those links, with the latter two not set up yet:
http://cleolinda.tumblr.com
https://twitter.com/cleolindajones
https://www.patreon.com/cleolinda/creators
http://tinyletter.com/cleolinda
In conclusion: Looks like I’m going to be busy rebuilding for a while.