Wrote about Terranova by Studio Terranova! Follow the story of four high school girls navigating love, life, and friendship through their 2000s-era IM chats and online RP journals!
I like Discord, but I'm so tired of every site requiring you to go to their Discord for anything. It's a really shitty tendency because it feels like there is no standalone website nowadays.
I'm gonna do the opposite. I do have my own Discord server, but I want it as an addition to my site. Do you like the Discord experience? Do you want to join it? Then go ahead. If not, you don't have to.
Right now my website has a self-made comments section so anyone who doesn't use Discord can post comments there. You just need a website account which you can make with just an email address, a username and a password. That's it. Don't even need to verify the address if you don't want to. I'm also developing my own forum, because I really really miss them.
We have lost too many things from the old internet, maybe it's time to bring some back.
I go by Lysianthus online. I'm a university student studying to be a materials scientist/engineer. I'm also a hobbyist developer/coder and a big fan of personal websites. I like #reading, #writing, #learning new things, and lurking in #fandom spaces.
My posts will be a mix of general + #personal stuff and my hobbies + interests.
On three different occasions today I followed links to content that used to be on the open web, only to be confronted by paywalls or "free" login-only access that is too expensive in terms of privacy, security, cognitive burden, or frustration.
There's very little open web left and a lot of that (including my stuff) is effectively invisible in the enshittified search engines and unwelcome in the pornocalypsed social media silos.
Cela m’a valu (et me vaut encore) des attaques grossières et insultantes de toute une profession tentant d’associer mon nom avec des injures sur Google.
Depuis quelques temps, c’est encore pire: le contenu est généré automatiquement pour correspondre aux recherches:
« le web 1 est celui des débuts, le web statique, où l’on se rend principalement pour lire et consommer des contenus et où les interactions restent relativement rares. »
Moi ça me gêne toujours cette présentation historique du web du début. https://sebsauvage.net/links/?HR_g5w
The narrative of "one era of the web dying, another is being born" is compelling, but I'm skeptical.
For starters: that era literally didn't exist. Twitter is a minnow of a social media platform. So is Reddit. Even the giants, like Facebook and YouTube, capture a sliver of the globe.
And while some platforms are clearly harmed by bad decisions, they won't disappear overnight. Twitter is likely to exist in 10 years — smaller, perhaps, but still there.
kicking around ideas for @metaparadox ‘s #OldwebNostalgiaJam. can’t decide whether to do a zine or a game (or a combination). flash? pre-smartphone mobile game? hmm hmm
Old enough to remember Web 1.0's fall, and the rise of 2.0 • romanticizes #OldWeb, Tech & Media • digital artist • writer • probably not a vampire.
Days consist of babying houseplants :blobcatflower: , having adventures with her dog (a golden retriever named Meadow 🌸), learning, and enjoying the ✨Arts✨.
It seems like the people responding to this poll (so far) skew towards those who experienced the Internet in the 1990s and earlier.
Which might suggest there are a lot of people on the #Fediverse that not only remember the #oldInternet , but might want to support, bring back, and re-create & restore the best parts of the "old Internet".
I'm Alis! I'm an #SFF#author and I love #monsters so write books about them (kissing). I also sometimes (very rarely) draw, and (mostly) play too much #FFXIV.
I'm also the admin of fandom.ink, a #fandom centric Masto instance, inspired by the #tumblr exodus and aimed at #fanart, #fanfic, #RP, and other general fannish content.
When I'm not doing that, I'm probably writing bad #php for #oldweb sites, reading too much #danmei, or playing #DnD.