It would be fun to bring back web rings. Alliances of websites that promoted similar content.
Those were the really fun days of the internet.
When surfing the web was actually an adventure and you’d actually discover things.
Not that I could ever go back to dial up speeds, but damn those days were fun.
That’s why I loved StumbleUpon when it first came out. I discovered so many cool niche things that way.
StumbleUpon was my jam. I could procrastinate my homework for HOURS with that toolbar!
The temptation to explore felt real. Not like clickbait.
It was that wonderful time on the internet where you got the chance to enrich your knowledge without having an algorithm force stuff on you because it thinks it knows what you like.
I love being surprised and love learning new things. The algorithms, AI, and SEO have stripped all of that curiosity and discovery away.
I’m having this internal debate as well.
I run a blog. I write content and I’m surprised at what gets visits. But I also don’t care about popularity. It’s a place where I can relay information.
My friends have YouTube/twitch. They’re extremely popular, in the 100k+ range. They all quit their job (I did not). But they’re so incredibly involved in every single “drama” that every talk about coding with them ends up being about how x-person on Twitter is a jerk or how to game the system.
Seems exhausting, and I wonder if it’s worth it.
Same here. At this point I’ve effectively become an internet ‘hermit’ and avoid social media. Sometimes I’d even avoid Youtube because of how overstimulating the content are. I don’t know how useful this will be for my wellbeing though, since I don’t even ‘touch grass’ either. And yes, I’m autistic so the current state of the web is borderline intolerable for me.
I still like to make video content, so I post it on my self hosted PeerTube instance instead: http://tube.jeena.net
That way I’m far awaybfrom fame but also drama ^^
My friends have YouTube/twitch. They’re extremely popular, in the 100k+ range. They all quit their job
That’s surprising to me. Are 100k+ really enough to make a living?
Im definitely fudging the numbers. They probably have more in other places and use all sorts of other social media platforms. And I don’t really bother to verify since I start to tune them out when they go into “getting more traffic by optimizing TikTok shorts” or whatever.
Username checks out.
I’m kidding, it can be good to have friends who aren’t the same as you. But seriously that sounds so TIRING. Like omfg just get a job at that point, so you can at least forget about it when you aren’t working.
When I came back from winter holidays to my job I didn’t remember ANYTHING. It was glorious
How do you count your visits? I don’t even see whether mine has visits or not lol. I am not even sure if counting people would count as “tracking”, so I am not sure whether it’s acceptable in my books. The only feedback I got were a couple of emails.
I set up Google analytics on it years ago and only check for visits. Ive been meaning to switch to an open-source alternative but I’m extremely lazy on that end, since I’m not interested in monetizing.
Just turn it off. If this isn’t a business then you don’t need it. Free yourself :)
I’m starting to miss the BBS days and silly things people did with pure ASCII.
I found this search engine that helps find non commercial sites. www.marginalia.nu
Might be useful for finding those kind of sites again.
Intersting, I searched for myself and didn’t find myself but other people related to the Indieweb community mentioning me there.
When I’ve got some time to kill, I like to browse kagi.com/smallweb/ occasionally. It’s sort of a curated random list of personal blog posts.
That’s pretty cool. I’ve recently started a little blog thing myself too. It’s pretty shit but I think I’m getting the hang of it. Looking at other blogs certainly help as well.
Blog: https://liluzibird.github.io
Rss feed: https://liluzibird.github.io/index.xml
Edit: hmm my rss feed is cut off for some reason. Might need to find a way to fix that.
Interesting posts you have there I also have also tired github.io pages (https://jackdavies.github.io) I’ve had it rattling around for a while post to it now and again. I want to use it more (still learning how to use its quite basic and probably broken in places) I’ve got some more projects/posts I want to put on it but currently updating the whole thing to separate posts/projects and improve the overall look and feel. Often struggle with time and motivation to work on it though
I’ll definitely follow up with yours as well. Us small time bloggers need to keep it tight. Do you have an rss link for your blog?
Edit: ahh found it, it’s at the bottom.
I read about your home partition troubles. I ran in to that recently as well. Similarly I thought I would quickly try stable diffusion. Ended up not being as quick as I had hoped. I had to boot gparted and resize root and home. I had done that before at some point; but I keep forgetting how to do things. I was unsure if it is safe to do that without the latest version of gparted, so to be safe I redownloaded it and updated my system as well. Of course I have some old Nvidia hardware that tend to make my upgrades painful, so that took not so little time too.
I’m not really sure why having a separate home partition is even beneficial to begin with. Next time I make an install, I might just go without that.
