Here already, but I sympathize with your sorrow. I feel very much adrift myself.

I liked knowing that LJ was there, going on all around the edges where I couldn't see. Even diminished, it was a living community. I suppose it will go on being one for other people, but not for me. It is a country I can no longer go to.

It's amazing and wonderful that people can build such close communities under the auspices of indifferent to actively-hostile entities.

It seems to be one of the things people are good at. I would like it to be less necessary, but I hope we never lose it.