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Leaving aside the question of people reading your earlier content and making fun of it-- I got uneasy when the LJ servers were first moved to Russia. Shortly thereafter I downloaded all my content so it could be moved to a Dreamwidth account (more archival than anything else)... then deleted all the posts but one on the LJ account.
For those of you with old LJ accounts who've been thinking about this: the above article will talk you through the process of migrating your posts to a WordPress blog.
Don't know if this is a new setting or if I just missed it before. On your Wordpress account, go to Settings - Privacy and enable this option. No idea if this will be honored, but it's theoretical protection from this recent news.
It doesn't seem like Tumblr has added anything new to their privacy as of posting this. Keep your eyes out in case it's quietly rolled out.
According to this article, they're discussing an opt-out model of harvesting data, which is definitively worse than an opt-in model (because a lot of people are not going to go through the logistical hurdles to avoid their stuff getting stolen) and very much a bandaid on a open wound.
Needless to say, everyone should be screaming about this to @staff because the more friction the better, and backing everything up if they need to shut shit down rather than have their work be "legally" stolen by a bunch of Silicon Valley vultures who are all going to lose their shirts in a couple years.
Not exactly sure what Plan B I'm going to go with yet, but needless to say my interest in getting an independently hosted wordpress.org blog (because that's distinct from wordpress.com) and/or checking out Squarespace or the like has just gone way up.
You other web hosts can't deny
That when a load time's more than an itty bitty wait
And a hacker's in your space
You get...
Well, pretty upset. That's not something to take lightly.
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