LiveJournal was created by Brad Fitzpatrick in 1999 as a personal journaling application he initially used for himself.

He soon transformed it into a website others could use, marking its evolution from a private tool to a public platform.

Early on, LiveJournal ran on a simple scripting layer with a relational database, enabling basic journaling and commenting functionality.

As the site grew, Fitzpatrick added friends lists, user icons, and community journals, which helped differentiate LiveJournal from other blogging platforms.

Its infrastructure expanded with additional servers and a more robust database system to handle rising traffic and activity.

In 2001, Fitzpatrick released the LiveJournal server code as open source, inviting outside contributions and accelerating development.

By 2003, LiveJournal had a large following and a strong sense of community, particularly among science fiction and fantasy fans.

Key features included publishing and commenting on posts, community blogs for shared interests, and a friends system that let users follow and interact with one another, giving the site a social networking dimension.

Distinctive capabilities also included uploading manuscripts in various formats, adding illustrations and highlighted headings, and having posts indexed by major search engines like Yandex and Google, which improved discoverability and appealed to beginner authors.

LiveJournal’s community-driven approach and social networking features were central to its early popularity and user engagement.

The platform reached over 2.5 million active accounts by 2005, becoming one of the largest online communities of its time. [4].

However, its infrastructure—built for a smaller scale—struggled as the user base grew, contributing to periodic downtime and performance problems. [2].

Its popularity began to decline in the late 2000s as newer platforms such as Facebook and Twitter offered more modern, user-friendly, and interactive experiences that drew users away. [28].

Broader shifts from Web 1 to Web 2 also changed user expectations toward more dynamic, socially integrated services, which overshadowed LiveJournal’s earlier strengths.

Other factors contributing to the decline included rising competition, changes in user behavior, privacy concerns, a lack of innovation, and difficulties monetizing content.

Later, the introduction of censorship, revisions to the rating system, cancellation of anonymous names during wartime, and algorithmic restrictions on “unreliable” users squeezed out some users and further eroded engagement.

Despite the decline, LiveJournal remains online with a much smaller user base, and its legacy endures in subsequent social platforms and in fan communities that followed its community-centric model. [29].

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The US version of the Little Red Book, Lemon8, has seen a sharp rise in downloads in the past month.
In the United States, TikTok may face a ban, the parent company 's words jump 2
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Pinterest and Facebox function, positioned as a lifestyle sharing platform, easily reminiscent of the Mainland
Social media and e-commerce platform Little Red Book.
A month after the launch of the app, the number of downloads in media attention and TikTok influencers has soared.
According to data from data.ai, Lemon8 has risen 693 places in the past 30 days, becoming the number one download in the United States.
The second largest lifestyle app.
Lemon8 also uses a recommendation algorithm similar to TikTok, which collects user data such as IP address,
Browse history, device identifiers, and other information to recommend to users what they are interested in.
The app was launched in the Asian market in 2012 and has been rolled out in countries such as Thailand and Japan.
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Looking back at 2022, the World Daily continues to adhere to its original intention to serve the Chinese community, and its coverage is more extensive.
In addition to enriching the news on paper, the digital development of the World Daily has also made a new breakthrough.
A major upgrade and strategic optimization has been made on its own platform and social media to meet the needs of different readers and provide the latest and fastest news and information in line with the trend of the post-epidemic era.
For many years, World Daily has provided a full range of international news and daily life events in the Chinese community across North America, while focusing on news from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other regions.
World Daily adheres to the original intention of "decent newspaper", weighing the advantages and disadvantages of the pursuit of news authority and reliability, which has established the credibility of World Daily under the mixed of false information in the digital era.
As the readership continues to expand, reaching out to Chinese immigrants, international students, business groups and tourists, the newspaper has realized that it is necessary to constantly expand the type of news to meet and attract more readers ’ preferences.
World Daily News has launched a new “Consumption ” section, carefully collecting high-quality content to be closer to the lives of readers.
World Daily has been actively involved in community activities for a long time, and regularly organizes exhibitions covering tourism, education, real estate, festivals, and other special reports such as “Anti-Asian Hate ” and“ Post-epidemic Era ”. In China, while promoting Chinese culture, it provides a more exciting life for the people and provides more opportunities for businesses.
At the same time, the World Daily also provides a more convenient communication platform for the majority of Chinese in the digital development process. Readers can share each other's views and experiences on the digital platform, and editorials and contributions often cause enthusiastic discussion and response from readers.
Especially after the horrific shooting in Monterey Park, Los Angeles, the United States attaches great importance to it, and the World Daily first launched an all-around operation, combining interviews with people from all walks of life to restore the most real details of the case, thanks to the rapid spread and fermentation of digital platforms, and the victims of the incident received extensive assistance from the community.
On the basis of sticking to paper, World Daily provides a better reading experience and better news and information services through various improvements and innovations in its digital platform.
On the basis of the original digital eight platforms have been optimized and improved. At present, News Network, APP, YouTube, WeChat, Facebook, Email, Little Red Book and Yellow Pages are actively deploying brand communication effects to further enhance the influence and visibility of World Daily in the Chinese community, and promote communication and interaction with the mainstream society.
Look at the six major optimizations at once.
First, the news website, APP, web side synchronization three in one to meet the needs of readers of different vehicles
With the rapid development of the digital era, the most proud achievement of the World Daily in 2022 is to achieve the synchronization of news websites, APP and web-side.
The launch of the new APP makes it easier for readers to read the news and information of the World Daily News, while also providing more rich and diverse functions and services.
The interface of the new APP is more concise and clear, and it is very easy to operate.
Users can customize the reading experience, according to their own preferences and needs to set news real-time push, theme subscription, font size and other parameters.
It also supports social media sharing, so readers can share their favorite news and information with friends and family.
A digital subscription service is available on the newsletter function, allowing readers to subscribe to newspapers online and browse the latest news and information anytime and anywhere.
With more than 20 million readers and more than one million users, the unification of news content across different vehicles is the clearest reform that World Daily has made in 2022 for a better digital experience for its users.
At present, the number of downloads of the new version of the APP is growing rapidly, gathering the inherent user groups of the website and expanding the channels of new users. The World Daily will regularly launch digital welfare activities to enhance the interaction between new and old fans.
Second, YouTube channel content blossoms to provide the best quality content
World Daily has been committed to enriching and diversifying its YouTube channel content and expanding its audience.
U Video mainly provides news, information, culture, life and other content related to the Chinese community.
The Minute Encyclopedia mainly provides Chinese life skills and Raiders sharing.
As the flagship segment of video and audio, the production team deeply understands the needs of the audience, focuses on hot issues, pursues realistic shooting, real restoration of the scene, objective conscience evaluation, and each video has been carefully produced to bring better audio-visual effects to the audience.
The daily World Evening News aggregates the top events of the day, aggregating traffic passwords in the form of video and motion graphics.
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For many years, World Daily ’ s social media has been reaching out to Chinese communities and societies, publishing the latest news and information, improving news visibility and sharing, and engaging with readers on multiple platforms.
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As the new platform of World Daily ’ s digital operation in 2022, “LA Life Intelligence ” has attracted the likes of young local users once it was opened. The account collects life information and publishes relevant content such as the hottest and most fashionable lifestyle and tourist attractions at the moment, so as to stay close to the eating, drinking and drinking, clothing, food and housing of Chinese in the United States.
Through the trial of the new platform, World Daily has established a closer relationship with Gen Z users and enhanced its influence and brand image in a wider field.
In the future, World Daily will establish a cross-platform social media brand strategic alliance, attracting more fan groups to build their own user images.
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In the digital age, information turnover is rapid, and many readers do not have the energy to pay attention to the current news under the pressure of fast-paced life.
World Daily is aware of this and offers a free weekly subscription to its readers ’ email newsletter, including global events, local hotspots, event information and business intelligence, so that readers can learn more about the week ’ s global events in less time.
The high opening rate of "World News Appreciation" represents the recognition and affirmation of the users of the World Daily.
At the same time, the World Daily is also collecting more online and offline user data, and pushing the content to readers who need it in real time through email.
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With the emergence of Internet digital products, there are more choices for the promotion of people's lifestyles and businesses.
The World Daily is deeply aware of the shortcomings of the existing Yellow Pages and is currently working to optimize its functions.
World Daily hopes to provide more detailed life services through big data technology, use news to drive consumption, open up a profit model, and provide more valuable information for the audience.
2022 is a new milestone in the digital development of the World Daily.
World Daily will also continue to explore and innovate the path of digital development, actively apply new technologies and explore new platforms to enhance the quality of the reader experience and news coverage, and provide more high-quality, rich and diversified services and content to the Chinese community.
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Bluesky, the open-source Twitter alternative, is getting rid of its queue and opening its decentralized platform to everyone.
The service, which opened in beta last spring, currently has just over 3 million users, though that number could rise quickly now as potential users don ’ t need an invitation to join.
It ’ s an important moment for Bluesky, which began as an internal venture at Jack Dorsey ’ s Twitter (Bluesky ended its association with the entity now known as X after Elon Musk acquired the company, although Dorsey is a member of Bluesky ’ s board).
The company is part of a growing movement.
For decentralized social media, which proponents say could address many of the shortcomings of centrally controlled platforms such as Facebook, X, and TikTok.
Jay Graber, CEO of Bluesky, tells Engadget: “We really believe that the future of social networking should be open and decentralized. ”
"This is something we think is good for public conversation in general."
For those who missed Bluesky ’ s first hype cycle last spring, the service is functionally similar to that of X and Threads.
His posts — affectionately referred to by some early users as “Skeets ” — are set by default to a timeline, though users can also follow many other algorithmic feeds created by fellow users.
Soon, the company will take a similar approach to content moderation, allowing third parties to create their own “ranking services ” for Bluesky content.
The service is still much smaller than most of its counterparts and doesn ’ t yet have a live messaging feature.
But it has become a haven for a number of high-profile Twitter users and others looking for more quirky emotions on Twitter and less than Elon Musk.
Much like the way Mastodon and other services in the world are built on ActivityPub protocol, Bluesky works on its own open-source standard called AT Protocol.
At the moment, the only Bluesky is the version of the service created by Bluesky.
But that will soon change, as the company plans to start experimenting with the consortium, which will allow developers and other groups to create their own instances from Bluesky.
“The protocol is like a permanently open API, ” Graber says.
“This means that the creativity of developers can become somewhat unruly. ”
Of course, the world of Twitter alternatives looks vastly different since Bluesky first launched.
Meta ’ s Threads app has grown to 130 million users since last summer.
Meta has also started making some topic posts available on Mastodon, which is the first step towards making it compatible with the rest of the world.
But while Threads may show some support for open source protocols, that ’ s not like decentralization, Graber says.
“If they ’ re integrated with ActivityPub, you ’ ll still be using a Facebook-owned app with that little window to a more open world, and it won ’ t be easy to leave.
We hope that the world of AT Protocol will allow people to navigate between different apps and different services much easier. ”

Its infrastructure expanded with additional servers and a more robust database system to handle rising traffic and activity.

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Succeed Being the CEO of a company whose reach has grown insanely in recent years shouldn’t be easy, especially when you’re Tim Stokeleythe founder and Only Fans CEO. Beyond the adult content, the platform has an audience of over 150 million users, so there is undeniably something that Stokely has done right.

Therefore, with a fruitful career as a backup, Tim Stokeley shares some of the most important lessons he has learned for succeed and succeed as a businessman.

Monetize something that already exists

“When onlyfans was launched was the first platform of its kind and was deliberately created to accommodate all kinds of content creators. There were already a lot of creators producing amazing stuff, but on social media for free. You could see the explosion marketing of influencers, but these received remuneration through advertising campaigns and product promotion. Our thought was always: ‘Okay, what if we could build a platform that was exactly [igual] or very similar to the one that exists in the social networks, but with the key difference of the payment button?’ So all these creators, who were making this amazing content for free, had a very easy way to capitalize on that content.”

Build a product that scales both down and up

“On other platforms, there was no single solution to monetize content beyond product promotion or sponsored ads. That business model it only addressed a very high percentage of influencerswhile ours works for all content creatorsregardless of the size of their fan base.”

find a niche

“From the beginning we decided that it was a sensible and safe rule that all users be over 18 years of age, mainly because of the payment element of the platform. But of course, the fact that all users are over 18 and all content is safely hidden behind a paywall, allowed us to have more progressive and liberal content policies than others. social media platforms. But from day one onlyfans was released for all content creatorswe never market it to any specific industry.”

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Develop based on direct feedback

“We have more than 100 million users. There are many comments. A good example [de aplicación de los comentarios de los usuarios] is the payment messaging. We started getting feedback from creators saying, ‘It would be really nice to be able to send messages to all my fans. [por los que el fan puede pagar]’ Another example is live stream. We’ve had a lot of requests from creators who wanted us to offer them a way to stream live, so it’s something we’re developing and will be releasing shortly.”

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The live streaming industry has exploded in recent years. Between April 2019 and April 2020 it grew by 99%. According to a recent report, the number of hours of live streaming watched on the four major platforms resulted in 3,934 billion.

Media experts believe that Live Streaming will become the normal way of people viewing content. It is believed that by the end of April 2022 the number of livestreaming hours watched will be 9.3 billion hours. One of the new kids on the block of live streaming wants to become one of the major players in the live streaming world.

See Me Live has become one of the most talked about live streaming networks of 2021. They intend to shake up the industry and provide people with what they want to watch. They have listened to people’s opinions about all the rubbish content that is out there, and have put together a platform that provides people with relevant content.

We sat down with Alan Barber from See Me Live to learn more about his network. This is what he had to say.

First of all, please introduce yourself. Alan Barber, Austin, TX

You are launching a new business, what can you tell me about it?

We are in the prelaunch stage of our innovative live video platform, See Me Live  www.seemelive.tv   See Me Live will be a live version of America’s Got Talent, except it’s global, and viewers only watch the acts they have subscribed to on SML, like “#skydiving”.  At the end of each short livestream, the viewers vote and leave comments, rewarding the good acts and trashing the boring, stupid stuff.  SML is also great for LIVE streamers.  SML’s patented audience tool will provide huge audiences without the need for followers, for FREE.  Right now, we’re building our audience database prior to launching the SML app that will access those audiences.

How did you come up with the idea of See Me Live?

It all started when I mentioned to someone how cool it would be to watch a live video of someone at the top of the Eiffel Tower, panning below, as it was happening, like a live travel video show. That person enthusiastically agreed and that started my “spidey sense” (I know something good is there) as I cultivated the concept of providing live video based on subject matters as opposed to followers like the other platform. And it had to be interesting, or just plain good content, in order for it to work, especially since the main consumers of live video were the younger people (Gen Z and Millennials) who are known for how easily they get bored.

There are lots of streaming services available, so why is See Me Live different?

So many ways.  1) SML will provide LIVE audiences via its patented Audience Tool, based on subject matter.  Those audiences will incentivize LIVE streamers to produce the content that viewers want to see –  “Audiences drive content vs. content drives audiences”., 2) Viewers get an “America’s Got Talent” kind of experience that is LIVE, and they only have to watch the acts they like, voting and commenting at the end like the judges on AGT… (lots of user engagement)., 3) Streamers will appreciate that SML will promote their viral quality videos shot on the SML platform since the SML “bug” is on every video., 4) streamers can monetize SML audiences directly making much more money, without the need for followers., 5) SML will be a shortcut to fame for talented streamers… for FREE.  See Me Live will be the preferred choice of LIVE video content producers. “Content is King”.

You say you provide a win win situation for viewers and streamers, can you explain what you mean by that?

Streamers get LIVE audiences based on subject matter instead of followers.  Anyone can access them.  Viewers get LIVE content they have subscribed to PLUS the “America’s Got Talent” experience.  Win/win

Lets be honest, there is a lot of trash on TV. Even on popular streaming networks there are programs that makes you wonder how they have got on there, how are you going to deal with such a problem?

There’s so much noise out there, competing for eyeballs. This is why short LIVE video on the subjects you are interested in, that you get to judge, is perfect for this environment.  Again, it’s a global version of a live America’s Got Talent where you are a judge.

So what kind of shows can people expect to see on See Me Live?

LOL, you’re going to see everything within the boundaries of our TOS. Extreme sports, travel locations, experiences, hoaxes, weather, breaking events, musicians, ufo’s, haunted houses, girls in bikinis, comedians, hobbies, animals, all kinds of stunts, foodies, cool product demonstrations, sports, marriage proposals etc.  It’s going to be huge.

One of the major problems I face with popular streaming networks is the ability to find shows that I want to watch. Some networks make it so hard to search for shows, is your network going to be user friendly?

Of course. We just let our viewers know when the stuff you are interested in is going LIVE.  Searching through scheduled upcoming live events is easy.

We have talked about other streaming networks, so who would you say is your biggest competition, and what will you do to provide your viewers with what you competition fails to provide?

We don’t have any competition unless it’s the general competition for eyeballs that everyone has.  We have a patent on our audience tool. Nobody is doing the SML experience.

When will See Me Live official be launched?

Once we populate the audience database, hopefully within a few weeks.

And finally, where do you see the future of See Me Live?

It’s going to be acquired by a company in the content business and I predict it will be the next big thing.

Be a part of the first wave of users to tell streamers what they want to see LIVE.   www.SeeMeLive.tv

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The panel on stage at the Knight Foundation’s Informed event is Elon Musk’s nightmare blunt rotation: Techdirt editor Mike Masnick, Twitter’s former safety lead Yoel Roth, and Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, who have come together to discuss content moderation in the fediverse.

It’s been more than a year since Musk showed up at Twitter HQ with a literal sink in tow, but many social media users are still a bit nomadic, floating among various emerging platforms. And if a user made the choice to leave Twitter in the Musk era, they likely are looking for a platform with actual moderation policies, which means even more pressure for leaders like Graber to strike the fragile balance between tedious over-moderation and a fully hands-off approach.

“The whole philosophy has been that this needs to have a good UX and be a good experience,” Graber said about her approach to running Bluesky. “People aren’t just in it for the decentralization and abstract ideas. They’re in it for having fun and having a good time here.”

And at the start, users were having a good — really good — experience.

“We had a really high ratio of posters to lurkers. On a lot of social platforms, there’s a very small percentage of people who post, and a very large percentage of people who lurk,” Graber said. “It’s been a very active posting culture, and it continues to be, although the beginning was extremely high, like 90-95% of users were all posting.”

But Bluesky has faced some growing pains in its beta as it figures out what approach to take to delicate content moderation issues. In one incident, which Roth asked Graber about on the panel, users discovered that Bluesky did not have a list of words banned from appearing in user names. As a result, users started registering account names with racial slurs.

“At the time last summer, we were a really small team, like less than ten engineers. We could all fit around a conference table,” Graber said. When content moderators discovered the issue with slurs in usernames, the team patched the code, which is open source, so users could see the implementation of the word lists happen in real time, which sparked further debate. “We learned a lot about communication transparency and being really proactive…. One of the reasons we’ve stayed in beta so long is to give ourselves some space to get this right.”

Since then, both Bluesky’s userbase and its team have grown. Bluesky hired more engineers and content moderations, while its total number of users increased from about 50,000 at the end of April 2023, to over 3 million this month. And the platform still isn’t open to the public.

“It’s fair to say that about half of our technical product work has been related in some way to trust and safety, because moderation is quite core to how this works in an open ecosystem,” Graber said.

For platforms like Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads, content moderation challenges become even more complicated when you add in the variable of the fediverse.

Once the AT Protocol is fully up and running, anyone will be able to build their own social network atop Bluesky’s infrastructure — Bluesky, as a social network, is just one app built on the protocol. But this means that as new networks crop up on the AT Protocol, the company will have to decide how (or if) it should regulate what people do on the platform. For now, this means Bluesky is building what it calls “composable moderation.”

“Our broader vision here is composable moderation, and so that’s essentially saying that on the services we run, like the app, that we set a baseline for moderation,” Graber said. “But we want to build an ecosystem where anyone can participate [in moderation], and third party is really first party.”

Graber explains the complicated concept further in a blog post:

Centralized social platforms delegate all moderation to a central set of admins whose policies are set by one company. This is a bit like resolving all disputes at the level of the Supreme Court. Federated networks delegate moderation decisions to server admins. This is more like resolving disputes at a state government level, which is better because you can move to a new state if you don’t like your state’s decisions — but moving is usually difficult and expensive in other networks. We’ve improved on this situation by making it easier to switch servers, and by separating moderation out into structurally independent services.

So, Bluesky can mandate that copyright infringement and spam are not allowed, but an individual app built on the protocol can make its own rules, so long as they don’t contradict Bluesky’s baseline. For example, Bluesky allows users to post adult content, but if someone were to build a more family-friendly server on the AT protocol, they would have the right to ban adult content from their specific server — and if someone on that server disagreed with that decision, they could easily port over their account to a different server and retain all of their followers.

“One of the issues that we have right now is that, when you just have what Twitter or Meta gives you, and maybe just a few options or checkboxes, that’s not really algorithmic choice,” Masnick said. “That’s not really composable moderation. That’s not getting you to the level of really allowing different entities to try different things and to experiment and see what works best.”

Users can also choose to use third-party feeds to view content, instead of just choosing from a “recommended” and “following” tab.

“Rather than telling people decentralization has all these benefits in the abstract […] it’s a lot more powerful to just say, here, there’s 25,000 custom feeds that third party developers have built, and you can just choose from them,” Graber said.

But since it’s such early days for Bluesky, this composable moderation philosophy hasn’t really been tested yet. Meanwhile, companies from Cloudflare, to Substack, to Mastodon have reckoned with what to do when dangerous communities organize on your platform.

“Let’s say somebody takes all this code you’ve been publishing, and the AT protocol, and they build a new network. Let’s call it NaziSky,” Roth told Graber. “What do you do?”

Mastodon faced such an issue in 2019, when the far-right, Nazi-friendly social network Gab migrated to its servers after being kicked off of GoDaddy. Mastodon’s founder condemned Gab, but said at the time that decentralization prevented him from actually taking action — so, users had to take matters into their own hands. Individual Mastodon servers blocked Gab’s server en masse, making it impossible for Gab members to interact with others on the website. But still, Mastodon has to reckon with its open source code being used to power what it calls a “thinly (if at all) veiled white supremacist platform.”

“This is one of the trade-offs of open source, which is that there’s a lot of benefits — stuff is open, anyone can collaborate, anyone can contribute, anyone can use the code,” Graber said. “That also means people whose values drastically diverge from yours can use the code, grab it and run with it.”

Like what happened on Mastodon, Graber thinks that the user base will ultimately set the tone for what is considered acceptable behavior on the platform.

“It’s a pluralist ecosystem. There’s lots of parties out there, and when they unanimously decide that something is outside the Overton window of the norms of communication, then that becomes sort of the social consensus,” Graber said. “If a whole parallel universe emerges, that’s possible with open source software, but those communities don’t necessarily talk if the norms are so drastically divergent.”

Then again, dominant and centralized social platforms like Facebook and X have shown the dangers that can emerge when just a few people are in charge of these moderation decisions, rather than whole communities.

“Unfortunately, you can’t turn a Nazi into not a Nazi. But we can limit the impact of the Nazis,” Masnick said. “Let’s limit their ability to wreak havoc. I think that leads to a better place in the long run.”

Key features included publishing and commenting on posts, community blogs for shared interests, and a friends system that let users follow and interact with one another, giving the site a social networking dimension.

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Content: LiveJournal is back in Kazakhstan
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Access to the "Live Journal" was restored after the administration of the LiveJournal blog platform executed the decisions of the judicial authorities of Kazakhstan on the removal of illegal materials posted on the resource.
Representatives of LiveJournal reported on the removal from the blogging platform of materials containing signs of propaganda of terrorism and religious extremism, public calls to commit acts of terrorism and the manufacture of explosive devices.
Earlier, the Saryarka court of Astana issued a decision to close access to the “Live Journal ” from August 20, 2011 due to the distribution of these materials.
As a result, the Committee of Communications, Informatization and Information of the Ministry of Investment and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan decided to resume access to the resource on the territory of Kazakhstan from November 11 this year.
LiveJournal also plans to open a representative office in Kazakhstan and develop the Kazakhstan segment of the blogging platform.
For reference: “Live Journal ” is a blogging platform for keeping online diaries (blogs).
Provides the ability to publish your own and comment on other people ’ s records, conduct collective blogs (“communities ”), add other users to friends and follow their records in the“ friends feed ”.
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(Subtle story by LiveJournal author Edel Weiss)
And here is another work from an unrecognized (yet!) author.
The format in this case is the most organic for the genre of my LiveJournal reviews, because for once a story called “Declamation ” is posted right here, here, in the LiveJournal.
I think it's beautiful.
What is LiveJournal not a platform for beginners?
LiveJournal is no worse, in my opinion, the same site for beginner graphomanians Avtor.ru - on the contrary, LiveJournal is better!
Here you can upload manuscripts in any format, provide them with illustrations, highlight headings and subheadings as you like; another important point for the author is that publications in LiveJournal are indexed by all search engines, the same Yandex and even Google.
And the publication on the "Author" is still to be found!
In a word, yes – I am a patriot of LiveJournal, I consider LiveJournal to be the best and at least the most free social network in Russia (and perhaps in the world) – and therefore I started reading the story, we can say, giving him a couple of points of affection in advance.
And then there was the second one: a story.
That is, not something dimensionless that read - not reread, but finally - a miniature!
"Declamation" is really small, it does not even have a special plot, in terms of genre - this is such a sketch, a trinket; the author clearly rests more on the beauty of the language, his metaphors... and, what to hide, eroticism - which he tried to load into the work to the maximum.
And given that the hero of the story, apparently, a kind of alter ego of the author, and not even a writer, but, take it above - a poet...
Most likely, the author thought of the "Declaration" as a kind of "poem in prose."
With this view, by the way, the name itself acquires an exquisite double “highlighting ” meaning: on the one hand, the story is really“ about recitation ” (the characters agree that one will recite something to another), and on the other hand, it seems to be “recitation ” itself, that is, something designed to read aloud.
Since I have already accumulated experience in LiveJournal - with a dozen reviews on opuses of various genres - this story from the author with the pseudonym Edel Weiss (meaning not a mountain flower, but a German beer), seemingly an obvious man, reminded me most of all... women's "love novels".
(The phenomenon of “female erotica ” I recently analyzed on the example of the erotic thriller“ Stone Messalina ” authored by a certain Mirisi).
However, before romance novels, it has at least one undeniable advantage (from the point of view of a man) - it is short.
The plot there is very simple and one-way: at a party in a certain club (it is impossible even to guess the country), the hero meets his girlfriend, she asks to read her new poems, the hero breaks for a while, and then exposes to her a certain - erotic! - condition that the girl happily accepts.
ALL.
In general, since the story is short, and besides it is on the same resource on which I write this - let's you read it right now (there are three pages), and then return to the exchange of impressions.
Follow the link, then come back, enriched with impressions.
(PAUZA)
Well, what do you say?
Personally, I am tormented by one absurdity: the story seems so short, but for some reason I want it to be even shorter.
Strangely enough, he seems confused.
The reason, apparently, is that after all, the author ’ s “beauty of language ” cannot atone for the obvious poverty of content, or rather, simply the absence of HISTORY as such.
Although someone, I am sure, it may well "come in."
After all, the essence of such prose is not to tell something, but to create a certain mood, in this case - love longing and at the same time anticipation.
And, unlike the plot, there is a certain idea in the story, and the idea is not very trivial: the author seems to tell us (and it is difficult not to agree with him): if you, incompetent contemporaries, demand from us, the creators, to read to you your own, written in blood, coming from the heart, works - that is, demand, in fact, to open your soul - then do you think it is not fair that you in The answer also revealed something from what you have – well, at least the body?!
It makes sense.
But perhaps a little more interesting would be to read the story on the contrary - assuming that his main character is all the same girl.
The girl is obsessed with the idea of opening to the young man on whom she has laid an eye her best work, which she rightly considers her young body.
However, her chosen one is a tough nut, and in fact a natural Narcissus; he is so egocentric, so absorbed in himself that all the efforts of the girl disappear into thin air – he barely notices her.
And then she finds a workaround, makes a kind of “knight move ” – catches the narcissistic author on his vanity, depicting an interest in his poems (which others do not enjoy any success).
And here the chosen one immediately melts like wax, and – bingo!
Finally agrees to meet the girl alone and does not even mind that she will be naked.
The upcoming happy ending of the main character is only spoiled by the knowledge of an experienced reader that the joy with a narcissist is doomed to be short-lived, and that she will still cry with this bore.
There would be some dashing twist here for us by the author...
But no, alas – the genre of romantic poetry in the prose of twists does not provide.
There are not as many successful metaphors in the story as we would like, but here is one I liked: the hero makes his way through the frameless crowd in the club, and the author describes it this way: “He swam through the ragged hum of conversations, unnoticed by anyone, like a submarine. ”
All right!
Dialogues, in my opinion, are a weak point in the story - they are too ironed, people do not talk like that even at philosophical symposia.
But sometimes quite narrative descriptions are made quite carelessly, such as “Asya was well dressed and cleaned. ”
What is “hair ” about?
You mean, "she had a neat haircut"?
Perhaps this is historically correct – but still today they do not say so.
And I have the word "removed" for some reason associated with the deceased...
“Looking deep inside, I walked with two glasses to the bottle formation.
Without being distracted by the surroundings, he poured something. ”
Totally vague epithets.
It seems that this phrase from the middle best conveys the essence of the whole work.
Little materiality, textures.
The image of the heroine: "Some soft folds of iridescent silk on the chest, tightly covered hips, sparkles of jewelry, finely selected shade of lips."
In general, some kind of picture in the spirit of abstractionists.
On the other hand, there is something in it, a man ’ s look at a woman.
What does he see?
Chest, thighs, lips, everything.
She can't see her ass because she's sitting on it.
I'd like to, though.
No, in principle, this little story is not as simple as it seems.
You can even dig up and even find something there.
Link again: https: / / mercibo.livejournal.com / 167060.html
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Why does one author believe LiveJournal is a superior platform?

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LiveJournal’s community-driven approach and social networking features were central to its early popularity and user engagement.

The platform reached over 2.5 million active accounts by 2005, becoming one of the largest online communities of its time. [4].

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Content: Reddit on building & scaling r/place

Altitude SF 2017 brought together technical leaders from Reddit, the ACLU, TED, Slack, and more to explore the future of edge delivery, emerging web trends, and the challenges of cloud infrastructure and security. In this post, we’ll share Daniel Ellis’ talk on how Reddit built and scaled r/place, their real-time April Fools’ project.

Daniel Ellis, Senior Software Engineer, Relevance, Reddit

At its core, r/place’s motto was: “Individually you can create something, together you can create something more.”

r/place was a globally shared, 1,000 x 1,000 pixel canvas on which each user could paint a pixel at time:

Everyone painted on the same grid together, with one catch: you only got one pixel every five minutes. You couldn’t draw anything on your own — you had to draw with other communities. (“When you joined with other people you could make something a lot better.”)

A lot of subreddits came together, resulting in a richly populated final canvas filled with country flags, memes, and the Mona Lisa:

In total, the project had 1.1 M unique users, 150,000 concurrent users, 16.5 M tiles placed (enough to cover the board 16 times over), and was finished in 72 hours.

Challenges for building r/place

There were numerous challenges to take into account when approaching this project:

  • There was only one shot to launch, and the project only lasted a few days. With a set deadline of April 1, there was no pushing the launch back. And, the project had to be ready to scale and in good working order immediately, or else no one would use it.

  • Keeping the main site unaffected. The team had to ensure the rest of reddit.com remained in good shape.

  • A small team (3-4 engineers), with the rest of reddit.com to work on.

  • They had no idea what users would do with it, which was more of an ideological challenge than a technical one; they were offering up an entirely blank canvas for users to draw on: “The idea of giving the internet free rein over that can be scary.”

With those challenges in mind, the team tracked their stress levels over time:

The chart gave the team a sense of where to put more focus or get more people on board, i.e., “The backend people were a little more stressed.”

How it worked

Reading the board was “the simplest” part of implementing r/place: they cached the board on Fastly’s CDN with a time to live (TTL) of one second (this was to reduce load on the data store as much as possible — a little bit of latency was fine because updates were also streamed via websockets to the user).

The second major part was drawing a pixel: a request came in and passed through the CDN and load balancer untouched, and the application server would check to make sure the user was logged in, the account was of the right age, and that they hadn’t placed a pixel in the required amount of time. If all that checked out, an update was sent to a few places:

  1. A websockets cluster (a fan-out exchange from RabbitMQ) that let people’s clients get that message back and display it onto the board for real-time updates.

  2. The event collector (a kafka pipeline), allowed the team to do an analysis as well as release the data to the community (who created heatmaps, among other creative endeavours) once the game was finished.

  3. Redis, where a bitmap of the board was stored in one key (more on this later).

  4. Cassandra, where the actual data about the user who drew the pixel was stored, which allowed users to click a pixel to see when it was placed and by whom.

Backend choice: Cassandra v Redis

There was some back and forth over whether to use Cassandra or Redis for the actual storage of the board; each choice had its pros and cons:

Cassandra was the initial choice — it serves a significant portion of reddit.com, therefore having the benefit of being a familiar technology which had plenty of in-house expertise — and offered a 36 node cluster, about 96 TB of data, 90,000 reads/sec, and 30,000 writes/sec.

However, Cassandra did not fit this project’s data model very well: the team needed to have one million records of individually addressable pixels, and then needed to be able to return all of those pixels when someone loaded the board; with Cassandra, this took the form of a million columns in a row. Further, the use of Cassandra presented a “double-edged sword:” they knew it’s a good data store because it’s used all the time, but if something happened with the project it was potentially a way to hurt the main site (by using the same Cassandra instance to run r/place and reddit.com, they risked bringing down both).

Redis, on the other hand, fit the data model well — it was “exactly what they needed.” It’s not used much for the main site (Redis is used for counting, so active users can be seen in the sidebar), so didn’t carry the potential of affecting reddit.com if something went awry with r/place. However, since it’s not used a lot, it was more unfamiliar than Cassandra.

Board format

For efficiency's sake, the team cut the palette down to 16 colors, storing them in a four-bit unsigned integer — a bitmap that the front end could interpret as red, green, and blue.

Here’s a scaled-down example:

On the left you see the data as stored and transmitted, and on the right how it “wraps around” when placed on the grid. After a write, a particular place in the bitmap was addressed based on the coordinates (x + y * canvas_size), which meant they could store pixel information for one million pixels in 500 kilobytes of data. This value could be made even lower by gzipping when downloading the data in the browser.

Setting a pixel: SETBIT v. bitfield

Initially they looked at SETBIT, a Redis command that lets you set individual bits, for enabling users to set pixels on the board. They’d run SETBIT, the name of the key, the offset they’d want to write into the key, and the value. In action, it would look something like this:

SETBIT canvas 100 1
SETBIT canvas 101 1
SETBIT canvas 102 1
SETBIT canvas 103 1

Repeating the command four times wasn’t ideal — another downside was that if users tried to set their same pixels in the same spot, a random mix of colors might result, something that could be addressed by making it atomic, like the concept of transactions in SQL.

The team eventually settled on BITFIELD, which is able to operate with multiple bit fields in the same command call. BITFIELD also shortened the command to two lines — when the pound sign was added, Redis automatically calculated the bit position — as seen in the following example:

BITFIELD key SET TYPE OFFSET VALUE
BITFIELD canvas SET u4 #25 15

Getting the pixel

The team didn’t need to use BITFIELD at all for the GET, instead using a simple GET, and letting the client handle parsing the pixels. The code was a bit more complicated since there are no unsigned four-bit integer arrays in JavaScript, so they had to parse it as an eight-bit integer array and do their own bit shifting, but overall this was small in the grand scheme of r/place implementation. (Check out the slides to see the command in full.)

Load testing for the real world

To make sure everything would work, the team set up load testing; they scaled up their network so r/place could handle 180,000 writes per second, which was more than they’d need (for context, all of reddit.com gets about 30,000 requests per second).

They also load tested with a mixed workflow more conducive to the real world. Initially load testing had been done with SETs only, but adding one GET of the key per second caused a huge hit in the capacity for SET operations, which made sense: “A SET is pretty small — setting a single pixel value — but a GET is getting them all!” 10 reads/second were added to the mix, which resulted in a drop of 20,000 writes a second (i.e., adding 1 read/sec meant a loss of 2,000 writes/sec).

At this point caching seemed like a good idea, but they also tested board load time, which had only been tested internally at a small scale. The board was loaded with “a million random pixels,” immediately resulting in what had been a sub-second load time in Cassandra jumping to over 30 seconds. For Redis, loading the board translated to getting a single key, which was more like 10ms. This load test was the final deciding factor for Redis, and also illustrated how it’s important to incorporate real-world data when testing.

Caching: a multi-tiered approach

Fastly’s CDN was the “first line of defense,” and adding it was as simple as adding a Cache-Control header with max-age=1 — they wanted to keep a low TTL to ensure fresh content while still limiting the traffic back to Redis to just one request a second.

If data in Fastly was stale, they’d fall back to the server-side cache — each application server had a local memcache instance for this purpose. Finally, if neither of those caches had the data, they’d fall back to Redis. Changing caching was controlled with GET parameters (though they ended up not needing to). Everything took “very little” actual code but paid off in terms of reducing load to the system.

Takeaways

Building and scaling r/place inspired the following sage advice:

  • Have knobs you can tune, like cooldown timers — they ended up running into trouble with the RabbitMQ cluster, so they changed rate of throughput for updates while diagnosing.

  • Have switches you can flip — it’s nice to have things you can turn to without shutting everything off (they wouldn’t have wanted to shut down the entire game because a piece of the infrastructure wasn’t working properly).

  • Load test everything with real-world data — in Reddit’s case, this showed the need for caching and another backend store — had they just tested simple reads and writes they might have missed problems arising from disparity in sizes for GETs vs SETs.

  • Use power principles — there wasn’t much time to execute the project, so anything they chose to implement needed to have a disproportionate payoff (e.g., there was a bug that “stayed until the end” but at the end of the day, it wasn’t a big enough deal to delve into).

Watch the talk below, and stay tuned — we’ll continue to share customer stories from Altitude (and beyond).

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However, its infrastructure—built for a smaller scale—struggled as the user base grew, contributing to periodic downtime and performance problems. [2].

Its popularity began to decline in the late 2000s as newer platforms such as Facebook and Twitter offered more modern, user-friendly, and interactive experiences that drew users away. [28].

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Content: Is Twitter Losing users?

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Is Twitter Losing Users?

In recent years, Twitter has been facing a growing concern: a decline in its user base. Once hailed as the go-to platform for real-time news updates and social interactions, Twitter seems to be losing its grip on users. This raises the question: Is Twitter losing users?

According to recent reports, Twitter has indeed experienced a decline in its active user count. The platform’s monthly active users dropped from 336 million in the first quarter of 2018 to 330 million in the first quarter of 2019. While this may seem like a small decrease, it is significant for a platform that heavily relies on user engagement and advertising revenue.

One of the main reasons behind this decline is the rise of competing social media platforms. With the emergence of Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok, users now have a plethora of options to choose from when it comes to sharing their thoughts and experiences. These platforms offer unique features and a more visually appealing interface, which has attracted a considerable number of users away from Twitter.

Another factor contributing to Twitter’s user decline is the increasing concern over privacy and online harassment. Twitter has long been criticized for its inability to effectively combat hate speech and abusive behavior on its platform. This has led many users, particularly marginalized communities and public figures, to abandon or limit their use of Twitter in favor of safer alternatives.

FAQ:

Q: What is a monthly active user?
A: A monthly active user refers to the number of unique individuals who engage with a platform or service within a given month. It is a key metric used to measure the popularity and growth of social media platforms.

Q: Why are users migrating to other platforms?
A: Users are migrating to other platforms due to the availability of unique features and a more visually appealing interface. Platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok offer different ways to share content and engage with others, attracting users away from Twitter.

Q: How is Twitter addressing the issue?
A: Twitter has been taking steps to address the concerns raised users. The platform has implemented stricter policies against hate speech and abusive behavior, as well as introduced new features to enhance user experience. However, it remains to be seen whether these efforts will be enough to reverse the decline in user numbers.

In conclusion, Twitter is indeed losing users as a result of increased competition from other social media platforms and concerns over privacy and online harassment. While the platform is making efforts to address these issues, it remains to be seen whether Twitter can regain its former popularity and attract users back to its platform.

Broader shifts from Web 1 to Web 2 also changed user expectations toward more dynamic, socially integrated services, which overshadowed LiveJournal’s earlier strengths.

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Will Web3 replace web2?

Buzz or real?

Imagine you read a blog post around 1998 or 2001 where some dude says that web2 will replace web1.

How would you have reacted to the post? 🤔

What is web2?

But why web2 and not web1?

Well, web1 was the first iteration of the web.

Some call them static web pages. This is because you can only receive information the site administrator publishes. And this information was similar for every user.

So you can say it was “Read” only web.

Humans are evolutionary beings. Our nature is to adapt and evolve.

Around 2004, web developers started including Shockwave Flash and Javascript into their websites to give room for interaction between the site user and the site.

The platform owns the data you write on web2 services.

These platforms use the data users provide to tailor the user’s needs.

In web2, two people could view the same page and get different results from the page.

So you can say web2 was a “Read-write” web.

Web2 didn’t just happen and didn’t just replace web1 overnight.

What is web3?

Bear in mind that web3 is not a framework or owned by a particular foundation. Instead, it’s an architectural pattern coined by Polkadot founder and Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood in 2014.

Web3 is web2 without centralized megalomanic intermediaries.

Web3 is or will be a web2 with its backend hooked on a highly decentralized blockchain, ensuring; decentralization, verifiable ownership, and censorship-resistant.

Big sentence? Yes.

Web1 → Read only

Web2 → Read and Write

Web3 → Read, Write, and Own

Web1 → Information

Web2 → Information and creation

Web3 →Information, creation, and ownership (Token economy, in a decentralized fashion)

Web3 is happening but will not wholly replace web2 overnight.

For Web3 to want to replace web2, there must be some issues with web2.

Let’s look at some of the optics.

The problems of web2?

The four most prominent issues web2 faces:
1. Monopoly
2. Censorship
3. Central point of failure
4. Data breach

Let’s look at these problems individually.

1. Monopoly
8 Corporations control 82% of cloud infrastructure; they can block other platforms from using their services at will (by tweaking their terms and conditions ).

Web3 proponents want this monopoly broken up by using a decentralized infrastructure.

This is what Ethereum is building. Ethereum and other blockchain networks are immutable. Once an app or service is added to its block, it can neither be deleted nor changed.

2. Censorship
Web2 services are not censorship resistant. Freedom of speech is superficial, and you must play by the rules. You can wake up in the morning and find your Instagram account banned.

Web2 requires ‘permissioned’ access and de-platforming occurs frequently. For example, in January 2021, the former president of America, Donald Trump, was banned from Twitter.

Many people said that Twitter was suppressing the right to free speech. But twitter responded by claiming — their platform, their rule.

3. Central point of failure
On October 4, 2021, loss of IP routes to the Facebook Domain Name System (DNS) servers caused a global outage for all Facebook’s (meta’s) services.

This downtime lasted for several hours.

The outage affected The Google Public DNS and several other services.

4. Data breach
Another significant problem with web2 is the issue of data breaches, data selling, and data theft.

To be fair, we willingly gave out our data…

but we didn’t ask them to sell our data.

With centralized data storage, data theft is likely and highly lucrative. And there are cases of software supply chain attacks.

According to the Cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency,

A software supply chain attack occurs when a cyber threat actor infiltrates a software vendor’s network and employs malicious code to compromise the software before the vendor sends it to their customers. The compromised software then compromises the customer’s data or system.

We have looked at some of the problems with web2. The question now is…

Can web3 solve the problems of web2?

It is Web3’s goal to return content rights to creators, decentralize monopolies, and provide secure communication via cryptographic hash functions, thereby building a new and more robust transparent digital economy.

Web3 plans to solve web2’s problems by relying on existing blockchain technologies as a backend tool.

At the moment, Web3 only solves web2 problems theoretically. This is because web3 is still in its infancy and has many inherent problems due to various architectural models used in developing blockchains.

Web3 on its own has lots of problems.

Let’s look at some of them.

Some Web3 problems

1. Scalability
2. Usability — Cost of using — Gas fee
3. Exploit consequences
4. Influx of VC funds

1. Scalability
Storing a large amount of data on the blockchain will completely take away decentralization from the blockchain.

But with a centralized server, a platform can scale as much as it wants.

For instance, building a platform like youtube on the blockchain is practically impossible.

2. Usability
To connect to web3, a user must set up a wallet. This technical process requires the user to assume full responsibility for digital avatars and assets.

Getting your grandma to migrate to “web3-Facebook” will be much more difficult. She might make a mistake and incur heavy losses.

Also, how would you explain to your non-crypto friends that before they use a web3 platform, they have to pay some fees (network fee)? 🤔🤔

Meanwhile, using Instagram doesn’t warrant them to pay a dime.

3. Exploits
The Open source nature of web3 is a double-edged sword.

First, it allows projects’ code base to be easily researched and reviewed by anyone.

Second, malicious people can take advantage of it to understudy vulnerabilities in the codebase.

97% of crypto hacks are web3 related, and over $2B has been lost just this 2022.

However, unlike web2 hacks, web3 hacks are fatal.

4. The influx of VC funds

“Concentrated insider ownership may permanently impair projects’ ability to become credibly neutral public infrastructure.” — Ryan Watkins

What the future holds for web3

The future is bright.

Currently, web3 largest apps have less than half a million daily active users.

This is tiny when compared with web2 platforms.

There will be many years or decades of massive crypto adoption and acceptance.

For now, most web2 projects will adopt some web3 ideologies, so we will experience many web2 iterations and not necessarily a jump into web3.

Conclusion

Web3 will eventually replace web2.

As monopolies get squashed and people yearn for decentralization.

Web2 will become obsolete. And the p2p economy governed by DAOs will be born.

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Other factors contributing to the decline included rising competition, changes in user behavior, privacy concerns, a lack of innovation, and difficulties monetizing content.

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The rise and fall of social networking sites: major projects that have faded over the past years
In recent years, the Internet has seen the rapid rise and subsequent disappearance of social media platforms, which according to studies can be attributed to the failure to adapt to changing trends, privacy concerns, intense competition, and the emergence of more alternatives.
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The rapid development of the digital age has brought many changes to the ways of communication over the past years, as the Internet world has witnessed the rise and fall of various communication sites, platforms that once flourished and flourished but eventually faded into oblivion.
In recent years, the Internet has seen the rapid rise and subsequent disappearance of social media platforms, which according to studies can be attributed to the failure to adapt to changing trends, privacy concerns, intense competition, and the emergence of more alternatives, which also indicate the rapid pace of technological progress and the need for continuous innovation.
MySpace has enjoyed unprecedented popularity during the mid-2000s, providing users with a platform to connect, share media and express themselves creatively, however, the decline of MySpace began when Facebook emerged as a dominant force in the social media landscape, studies show that MySpace failed to adapt to the changing preferences of their user base. This resulted in a loss of relevance and decreased user engagement.
Launched in 2004, Orkut was a pioneer in social networking, particularly in countries such as Brazil and India, and despite its early success, Orkut struggled to combat spam, privacy concerns and the rise of rival platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
As studies indicate, the lack of innovation and failure to address these issues eventually led to their demise in 2014, which also happened with the site "First Messenger" which was once an integral part of the lives of many people on the Internet, allowing users to communicate in real time and facilitate conversations and enhance communication between users. Like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, they have wiped out the site ’ s last hope of survival, amidst this massive and rapid technological development.
In 2011, Google Plus was launched, which was aimed at competing with Facebook and creating a social network within Google ’ s ecosystem, and despite the company ’ s vast resources, it failed to attract a large user base, which led to the fall of the application in 2019, which led to the company ’ s closure of the project due to a decline in the number of users.
In another example, Vine had gained immense popularity with its unique six-second videos, which served as a breeding ground for budding creators and led to numerous viral trends, however, Vine ’ s downfall is attributed to its failure to monetize content effectively, and the emergence of rival and powerful platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat.
Delicious is a harsh example of the fall of a social media platform, where the site faced major challenges due to the lack of effective monetization strategies, and the emergence of new competitors on the platform, which led to a sharp decline in the user base, and ultimately sold and re-launched, under new ownership.

Later, the introduction of censorship, revisions to the rating system, cancellation of anonymous names during wartime, and algorithmic restrictions on “unreliable” users squeezed out some users and further eroded engagement.

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Starting from February 24, interesting metamorphoses occur with my LJ rating (trifle, but unpleasant).
LiveJournal, apparently, defined me as an “unreliable ” user – and therefore he is just monotonically declining.
Of course, the principle of forming LiveJournal ratings has always remained a terrible military and commercial secret, but the general principle could be caught: if you are read a lot, your posts have a lot of comments and likes, the rating increases; if you read a little, there are no comments, or you do not write anything at all, the rating decreases.
It's kind of simple.
But with the beginning of the war, LiveJournal not only introduced censorship and canceled anonymous names, but also, it seems, revised the principle of rating.
Now the “unreliable ” users ratings simply decline no matter what.
I noticed it back in April – when on one of the posts (about AvtoVAZ) there was almost a record attendance – 75 thousand per day, about 1000 comments – and the rating, as if nothing had happened, continued to decline.
I am almost certain that the LJ algorithm has a restriction, according to which it by default believes that “Shoemaker writes nothing ”; accordingly, every day my personal rating gradually dries up, although I still have, even in conditions of censorship and general militaristic insanity, extremely“ fruitful ” posts.
All this is understandable – LJ, while he was “in the shadows ” and outside the attention of the“ ideologists ” of the regime, lovingly debugged his mechanisms of work and brought them almost to perfection, but when censors and censorship came, it breaks everything down in a few months, since the mechanisms were made with an emphasis on the objectivity of measurements, and no objectivity of ideology is needed.
I just don ’ t understand why it ’ s so half-hearted.
With other "unreliable" treated much cooler.
Kungurov was simply squeezed out of LiveJournal, Nikonov was squeezed out, Mitrich ’ s rating was simply halved in one fell swoop, Alex Rozoff was driven somewhere in the end of the first rating hundred (although his posts are read and discussed in the same way, if not more than before the sad Free Date) – and my rating is just slowly and sadly “blown away ” (about minus 8 thousand points), and almost ceased to include posts in the Top.
The only thing is that I ’ m treated about the same as El Murid: he ’ s also “slowly and sadly ” losing in the rankings, although his posts are read almost more than mine (but since we have the same rate of fall in the“ they write nothing ” mode, I can ’ t fall lower than him).
These are the ratings quirks.
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What happened at the start of an unspecified war? (probably the war on Ukraine)

Despite the decline, LiveJournal remains online with a much smaller user base, and its legacy endures in subsequent social platforms and in fan communities that followed its community-centric model. [29].

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1 million users on Bluesky a day after it opened to the public
Bluesky, the open-source alternative to Twitter, saw a surge in the number of new users just a day after its platform opened to the public.
The service gained more than 850,000 users bringing the total subscriptions to just over 4 million.
The service was in an invitation-only beta for about a year and grew to just over 3 million users when it was officially opened to the public.
It currently has nearly 4.1 million registrations, according to an online tracker.
“Things are rolling around here, ” Jay Graber, Bluesky ’ s CEO, wrote in a post on X.
The increase in the number of new users indicates that there is still a great curiosity about the platform powered by Jack Dorsey which started as an in-house project at Twitter in 2019.
He also noted that Meta did not fully capture the market for a text-based Twitter alternative.
Meta announced last week that the company ’ s Threads app has grown to 130 million monthly users.
Graber said Bluesky intends to grow at a slower pace so it can build the platform and core protocol, without the added stress that sudden increases in growth can cause.
Some of these concerns were confirmed during the last day as the surge in activity led to some technical issues on the site, including problems with the app ’ s custom feeds and a brief overnight outage.
The company said the outage was resolved within two hours.
Much of Bluesky ’ s future success will depend on whether it can sustain new growth and keep all of its new users interested.
The topics also saw an initial spike in the number of new users, then a dip before finally rebounding.
Although Bluesky may be somewhat similar to Threads or X, it ’ s a completely different kind of platform and part of the growing movement of decentralized social media.
Its open source protocol works like a “permanently open ” API, according to Graber, and the site already has dozens of developers building their own experiences.
Bluesky also offers more customization features for users, with features like custom algorithms and the ability to choose your content moderation settings.