alexandra @xandra@social.yesterweb.org

today is my neocities anniversary!!
so i wrote a little letter! it's not anywhere close to done, but if i didn't upload it today, i'd agonize over making it "perfect" forever, so here's a mess for y'all to look at!!

(one of the edits i have to do is directing it towards fedi too, cuz y'all have been super cool!!)

https://tonicfunk.neocities.org/writing/yesterwebletter.html

lol i joined my first fan cliques but for animal crossing
well it´s more a claim clique....
I got three villagers for myself

https://ac.kuchiki.net/

A couple views of Donner Lake, not too far south on the PCT from Interstate 80 (which you can see cutting south in the first picture). #california #nature

Websites start with WWW which stands for Wow Wowie Wow.

I'm happy to introduce our new ultra-low tech CMS for smol, accessible websites. The goal was to make something that could be self-hosted, but friendly enough for people who don't SFTP or use a terminal. 3 PHP files, Apache, and Gemtext. Should work on any dumb old Apache host; a technical person could manage many of these for friends and family with zero maintenance. Happy to answer any questions or take bug reports.

https://lichen.sensorstation.co/

#theWorkshop

rate my gaming setup

The other day I released some new songs on my bandcamp! Help me out by sharing it 😀
https://grafovolaverunt.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-cards

Thinking about the early 00's and my online usage at the time -- there were properietary platforms. There was deviant art, livejournal, myspace (although I didn't use it), the various messengers (aim, msn, icq) and I'd include mmorpgs in there. But there was also a wide range of smaller community run self-hosted ventures -- phpBB, wordpress blogs, static sites, email, irc.

The notable thing is that there was such a huge diversity of platforms that you were on. The communitites that you participated in where also spread across these platforms with a wide varity of intersections.

There wasn't just one thing.

Then the silos appeared and for a while we joked that the internet had become just two or three sites. The book site was definitely aiming at becoming a totalizing force of all online social interaction and readily bought out anything that started to compete.

And I would not want the fediverse to become a totalizing online social force. Not that I think it ever could be, but if it did that would be bad just like the silos hoovering up all online communities was bad. It's better place is one in a wide diversity of platforms that people move between freely.

And it feels like we've turned a corner and those totalizing platforms are spinning out of control -- and shedding users across the internet. Some are ending up in the fediverse. Some are rediscovering making their own sites. Some are just moving over to other properietary platforms -- discord, tiktok, twitch. All the old messenger services died, but now there's all new messenger services.

The network effect of everyone being on one place is coming to an end. And that is great!

We should resist the urge to try to get everyone into one place. Let everyone spread out across the internet and have those communities that span between services. Even if some of those are properietary, I will take ten non-totalizing properietary platforms over one great ​

New Wobble eggs have been found! New wobbles will hatch from 2 different evolution tree. Thank you neonriser for the art! - https://wobble.town