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Livejournal Now Requires Government Sber ID

I've been dancing around coming to Dreamwidth permanently for 10 years now off and on.
Well, this may be the last straw !!

*WTF is Going On?

I was just blocked from my new post on LJ. So I wanted to send an email to tech support to ask why?

When I went to my yahoo acct with which I signed up here on LJ, it wanted authorization verification by using the 6 digit code it sent to my gmail.
When I went to my gmail acct which I use for back up authentification it too wanted authorization verification with the 6 digit code it sent to my yahoo acct.
So, what do you call this? Mexican stand-off. Both request authorization, both are blocking me from viewing either 6 digit code, so both emails are suddenly unaccessible to me.

I went back to my LJ account to see if I am locked out, yet apparently not from existing posts, only from new posts pending. The post that LJ blocked from me was dated to post on Friday. It was a future dated post for Friday for this exact shite I am experiencing. Yesterday I experienced being blocked from comments on Russian posts. So I might as well state what's happening here, in case the whole thing goes dark and I no longer have access to that LJ content.

*Access Denied
Either you are trying to access a page you do no not have permission to view or your ip address is banned. If you feel this is in error, please email support at webmaster@livejournal.com with the bulleted information below. (but I posted it!)

Client IP: 77.111.246.40
Client User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/114.0.0.0 (None of which are my ID).
Error code: swlb-403
Use the links to access more options:
-LJ Home
-FAQ
-Site Map
You can also check LiveJournal's current status (ha-hah! what a joke!!)

Yet, everyone still seems able to comment on my feed,
It seems only Russian accounts have been affected
Maybe there is a professional account level for Russian customers to increase content integrity and protect it from spam?
I'm not spam, but I am an unpaid user. Always have been. I don't try to sell anything. Just use it for personal journaling for music art and poetry.
Nor do I barter in Hitcoins
Maybe that's what the change in rules alluded to.
I read it, but nothing it said concerned me except for being made undesirable because of unpaid content?
I don't know. it's still a mystery, but my spidey senses are tingling..
Ha-hah!

I've been here on LJ since 2006. That's a lot of content.

*LJ change in rules
https://ru-news.livejournal.com/80899.html
1165 comments and the page won't allow me to make a comment..

*In plain English
https://www.livejournal.com/support/faq/445.html

Most of my friends keep private journals, they don't rush to the top, which means they don't have Social Credit.

You know what I think?
I believe Russia has just implemented digital ID such as in China did, and American Youtube, etc.
Sber ID
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sberbank

Is this possible?

Russia has had digital ID for a long time now.
There's a government website where almost everyone is registered. It allows you to access many services digitally, remotely: pay taxes, get certificates, make doctor's appointments...
SberID is just one of them; it's a bank first and foremost, and they also have ID.
The changes to LiveJournal don't directly affect some, but if my friends can't comment on my posts, that's just plain wrong!

America is no different, Google has been censoring Youtube from Russian viewers for some time now. Well, here's to you, AI insane.

Youtube has already done what LJ is doing, by monetizing its services
I find less and less use for Youtube
I might just focus my time on bandcamp for music,
maybe even post my voice poetry for sale
I've been on LJ since 2006 without a hitch.
If this persists, I'm going to have to abandon all hope
and go find someplace else to play, but where?
Is the computer even worth using anymore?
A year and soon it becomes outmoded and we need to update systems
This feels like the old world is coming to an end
What a game
Anyway, I like LJ
It allows me to keep track of many things
It is a true journal for some of us
How about you


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Apologies to all Russian friends, if I am no longer able to reach you.

Suddenly LJ is blocking not just the comments on posts from Russian pages, but also now blocking messager:

403 Forbidden
nginx

Nix!
How do these changes effect you?
Pi

dr. π (pi)
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Does anyone know how to create a "cut" similar to that on LJ to hide content on Dreamwidth?

Please and thanks!

dr. π (pi)
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Fuck it !

OK, here's the lowdown, LJ is now controlled Russian platform, the front feeds are all Russian.

The system has had recent glitches, where the entry post stalls and hags to require me to reboot.

So, needless to say, you might be seeing me a lot more around here from now on.

Sadly, I've not found the robust content on dreamwidth that we once had on LJ.

So, frigate! We'll build our own ship.

dr. π (pi)
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