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I saw a post on dw_maintenance, partly in Russian, that imports could be slow because of the massive influx of new accounts that want to import their LJ-based blog to DW. So of course something is going on — turns out that in order to post, users have to identify themselves. This is because a law in Russia, another way for the authorities to crack down on dissent. And because LJ is owned by a Russian company, it has to comply.

Elsewhere, someone linked to this thread on Bluesky by one of the owners of DW on what that might mean for the non-Russian users of LJ. And maybe it’s alarmist, but I agree it doesn’t look good. It can’t be bad to be prepared.

I have migrated my blog to a WordPress instance on my own domain, but I still had entries that included images hosted on LJ — because I have a permanent account there, I had some image hosting space and I used to it upload photos and pictures to use in my posts. When I migrated the posts, the images were left where they were, and the WordPress entries simply linked to the images on LJ.

So I located all of those, downloaded them from LJ and uploaded them to the WordPress instance and replaced every image. So even if LJ goes down outside of Russia, I still have those photos in my entries.

Crossposted from my blog. Comment here or at the original post.