remember when the internet was fun and full of possibilities? yknow how now it's a miserable hell? reminder that what happened is that capitalism colonized it and now it's just as shitty as everything else capitalism's got its hooks in
like. seo, algorithms, targeted advertising: these are all DESIGNED to keep you from finding some weirdo's X-Files fan page or geocities star trek web ring. I would 1000x rather find those than tweets from the u.s. president, yet here we are #thankscapitalism
@skirts actually I get homepage results when those exist! Trouble is they barely do - most people now days turn to Facebook Pages before they consider setting up a webpage ("it's hard"). Having your own actual webpage is seen as something for "pros" now, which is obviously wrong.
Website authoring needs to be made simple for the average Joe without them studying HTML/CSS/JS (think desktop publishing) and simple, free hosting like Neocities promoted.
@polychrome @skirts Yeah... even I mostly just blather on mastodon and occasionally my phlog rather than using my neocities site for more than stupid playing with javascript.
I should at least put together a project page for my AJD clocks.