a) People don't know about it, and/or burned out on long-form before the effective death of LiveJournal. b) When Dreamwidth started up, there was a major schism in the people who were making the jump to Dreamwidth and the people who were not. Some of the Dreamwidth early adopters made themselves so obnoxious to people who were on the fence that they decided strongly against Dreamwidth.
I observed a small but noticeable reactivation of friends' journals that had been dusty for a while in 2020-ish, who would have been people who signed up on or around the founding, drifted away, but who came back thanks to covid/other things. So they would have had less reason to look for new user resources.
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a) People don't know about it, and/or burned out on long-form before the effective death of LiveJournal.
b) When Dreamwidth started up, there was a major schism in the people who were making the jump to Dreamwidth and the people who were not. Some of the Dreamwidth early adopters made themselves so obnoxious to people who were on the fence that they decided strongly against Dreamwidth.
I observed a small but noticeable reactivation of friends' journals that had been dusty for a while in 2020-ish, who would have been people who signed up on or around the founding, drifted away, but who came back thanks to covid/other things. So they would have had less reason to look for new user resources.