…where I talk about livejournal, blogging, how I blog, paywalls, the longevity of websites, etc:
A while later my friend introduced me to Livejournal, which is interesting to me till this day because the inherent culture and dynamics of it encouraged people to pour out their feelings on it. I don’t know if I am rewriting my own history but I feel like Livejournal was instrumental in the process in setting the tone of my writing till today. It gave me the idea that writing my feelings out to some invisible audience could be somewhat therapeutic. One thing that is now permanently gone from the Livejournal era is the ability to easily follow and like your friend’s blog, and publish only to your network of friends. I hope something like this can exist on federated systems one day.
– https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-winnie-lim