Exporting LiveJournal Posts (in 2026)

I’ve attempted to log in to, or change my password for, LiveJournal several times in the last 15 years or so. It’s never worked right. My account url: artlung.livejournal.com Mostly all I used that site for was as a POSSE and PESOS target. I reposted my blog posts, and reposted summaries of my tweets there too. My understanding is that this site remains owned by an entity domiciled in the Russian Federation, and I suspect the things I’d want to say and write about would be unwanted by such an entity. About Ukraine, about the freedom to express ones sexuality as one wishes. Today I exported my posts, and pretty seamlessly, using a tool called Livejournal Export (arty-name/livejournal-export) I use the Python management tool uv as well as the GitHub command line tool gh so this was the sequence of command line commands that worked for me: gh repo clone arty-name/livejournal-export Cloning into 'livejournal-export'... remote: Enumerating objects: 105, done. remote: Counting objects: 100%…