[info]heiko in [info]07refugees

Hi everyone. I just defaulted from LJ ;)

I have collected some links which may be outside [info]stewardess' post. Some of them include commentary on LJ postings such as [info]news on LJ.

These two cover LJ entries/commentary from Russian users.

I'd appreciate it if people could also link me to more that you've found, whether official or unofficial. Thank you!



P/s: Er, I would like to friend people from here... Part of the reason I've been using IJ less is because I am not familiar with anybody or with anything in it. :)
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Posted on Dec. 5th, 2007 at 01:27 am | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]greenwitch

Best thing to do to find friends is to join some interest communities and start posting :D There's also a few "addme" type communities.

Good roundup of links! Welcome to IJ! :)
Posted on Dec. 4th, 2007 05:57 pm (UTC) | | Reply

[info]walkingundine

I dropped you a comment on your IJ rather than this community by mistake... I think we need to do some serious outreach to Russian LJers. Some of 'em surely could be happy here, though I'm not sure how it would work for folks who don't speak/write much English.
Posted on Dec. 4th, 2007 06:06 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]heiko

copy paste

How do we do this? If we post IJ to Russians...
There are Russian trolls who are going to flood the place.

There is http://www.e-promt.com/ to translate the Russian language, but a lot of it doesn't translate well. Moreover there are too many slangs and colloquial terms...
Posted on Dec. 4th, 2007 06:22 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]walkingundine

Re: copy paste

That's true, IJ is still English-focused which wouldn't work as well. I'm not sure how Russian trolls would be any different than English-speaking trolls,though. Same nonsense, different alphabet.
Posted on Dec. 4th, 2007 06:32 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]heiko

Re: copy paste

Moreover, the Russian community pretty much developed independently (and rather insularly) from the English community...

I can't think of a good way.
Posted on Dec. 4th, 2007 06:35 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]greenwitch

Re: copy paste

Why not start off by creating a Russian-speaking asylum, and inviting people individually? Maybe word of mouth (or comments, at least) will start to spread.
Posted on Dec. 4th, 2007 06:43 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]ex_alchemy547

Re: copy paste

I have a Russian friend who is willing to help us translate a big post to help Russian users.
Posted on Dec. 5th, 2007 12:03 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]brimac13

If you're looking for a friending asylum, [info]friend_me is a good one (and I'm not just saying that because I'm the mod).
Posted on Dec. 4th, 2007 06:21 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]heiko

I would, but I'm not much of a fandom person... A lot of my interests are outside of fandom or popular culture, I can make friends with people inside fandom but I'm really not compatible with any fandom strictly.

Hope that makes sense^^;
Posted on Dec. 4th, 2007 06:24 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]brimac13

Yeah, that makes sense. But the asylum isn't strictly fandom. It's just that fandom friending memes are the only ones that have been posted. (If you had an interest/hobby and you wanted to find friends with that same interest/hobby, you could post a non-fandom meme...)
Posted on Dec. 4th, 2007 06:28 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]greenwitch

An interest or hobby of Russian-speakers, for instance ;)
Posted on Dec. 4th, 2007 06:44 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]sapphoq

or...


Heiko, maybe you ?and friends from El Jay can start a Russian asylum for those of us who wish to learn a little bit of Russian?

spike
Posted on Dec. 6th, 2007 12:20 am (UTC) | | Reply