I feel the same way - I'm worried that folks (at least non-Russian folks, and regrettably I don't understand Cyrillic) are departing LJ for warmer online climes. At the same time, though, the discipline of writing something every day, even if it is a trivial comment on my day or a quote from a favorite author, has really helped. And, ultimately, I like the attitude of the Syrian Christian poet who in the fifth or sixth century went to live in a cave. When his brother asked him what was the point of writing poetry with no audience, the poet said, "God is my audience."