A a collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be fun.”
A a collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be fun.”
After finding Lemmy and the rest of the fediverse, I’ve realized more and more that the internet is still very much fun. It’s just that these new things that were fun in the 00s, and which we got stuck on as they grew worse and worse (Google, Facebook, Apple, Digg/Reddit etc.), was for a long time too hard to get rid of. We 1) either forgot that the fun parts of the internet still existed or just assumed they didn’t and 2) felt locked-in to these services because all our real-life friends were on them still and reluctant to move / understand alternative technologies. But these friends were not on the fun internet to begin with. The internet was a lot smaller before it become extremely mainstream. Do I want to be able to have the best parts of social media with my real life friends? Sure, but until they are ready for the fediverse there are plenty of fun parts for me to visit without them.