Twitter is one of the social media spaces that I see the most people talking about the toxicity of. It sucks, because I know there are a lot of positives in terms of fandom and connection, but it offered way too much amplification to assholes because it created engagement.

Same here, regarding the fragmentation of internet history. I did port my LJ over here a couple months ago when there was (ultimately unneeded) concern about LJ becoming inaccessible due to Russian sanctions. A lot of that past (I started it as an utterly insufferable teenager, lol) is past I don't want to revisit, but I like knowing I could do so if I wanted to. I'm sorry you don't have the ability to look back if you want to.

I feel like it's weird, having been around for earlyish internet days, or at least the early days of widespread use... the idea of having to wrestle with having a digital footprint recording your past is a relatively new one. My parents certainly didn't have to deal with that. The idea of LOSING that record is even newer, and one that a lot of people didn't even think of having to plan for at the time. I have a lot of feelings about preservation and recording (personal) history, and how digital narratives are somehow simultaneously permanent and impossibly ephemeral.