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Today's web is the opposite of what early Internet utopians had in mind. Now the situation is somewhat similar to climate change: even committed activists can no longer turn the tide for the better. (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by DandomRude@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[–] 4grams@awful.systems 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I’m not interested in traffic. I’m literally a bored old dude who plays with junk. The only purpose for the site is me to play but I post for fun in case anyone stumbles across it. I’m delisted from everything.

Back in the 1990’s as a teenager I loved my little part of the webrings of personal, pointless sites full of random crap. I’d check in on friends on their personal sites and geocities pages that overused the blink tag and animated gifs. That’s the classic internet that I’m talking about, and I fully embrace it on my little pile of shit. But point taken so link removed just to be safe.

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I miss that old internet.

[–] Xer0@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, i'd love to check out your personal site!

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

~~Link I had posted earlier~~ update- obfuscated: www dot snand dot org. This thread is literally the only place I’ve ever posted a link to it :).

[–] Xer0@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cool site, thanks for linking it. I've been wanting to make a personal site for ages, but just no idea what to put on it.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

that is possibly the best compliment I've been given in ages, it's just a simple, fun playground and basically my social media replacement (just without the annoying audience :)

[–] Xer0@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was just going to check it out again to get some inspiration but it looks like it's blocked?

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I threw some filtering on it just to be extra safe and wound up blocking everything but the US. Did get a small uptick on bot traffic when I posted a link so might have overdone the security a little.

Guessing you are from one of the countries in hat showed up in the filter logs. I’ll do some selective unblocking.

EDIT- been selectively unblocking as I see them. I'm extra paranoid but also always learning.