[pttrn]

Just went there to check it out, it opened the front page in Russian(?) for me, even though English was selected in the top right. I re-selected English, it refreshed the page... in Russian. Close tab.

[r721]

Livejournal is owned by Russian company now ("Rambler Media Group").

There's a US-based fork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamwidth

[justinator]

I can go to my own and it's a time machine from 2012.

I'm not saying use it, but it is still there.