Motivation and rebuilding networks

So here I am, finally done with LiveJournal. Given that I've made maybe one not-just-for-me post in the past 3 years or so, I maybe should have given up on the platform years back. But while I wasn't posting, I was most certainly still reading. I've linked up with lots of interesting people over the years, and a non-insignificant number of them have continued to post on LJ, eschewing Facebook for the less popular platform, but one far more accepting of, and suited to, long-form writing.

But now LJ is more dead than ever before and here we are. Lots of people have made the same jump I have, but I'm not sure I have the emotional fortitude to go back and try to rebuild those long-ago-forged links.

I wonder if some small subset of spiders, when their net gets ruined by a passing mammal for the nth time, simply go "fuck it, I'm done," and starve to death.