Cherry

No flocktober

Love the link, i so miss this kinda stuff. I actually want to click each page.

OMG Love it. Thanks

Both the neocities and https://marginalia-search.com/ were very helpful.

I would love to hear more about this organic movement. If you ever want to do a regular post on it, i feel a lot here might respond.

It would be really good if we could have our neocities attached to our name or something....remember when everyone had a sig with 15 useful links. i forgot that

It used to be so much fun mooching around and stumbling on things, like a site covered in rainbows that told you about a the best walks on a local mountain and then had a random ice cream recipe and some happy person taking a silly photo of themselves, followed by a review of their fav spoon and some instructions on how to fix a vacuum.

I feel like there has been waves of losses.

• Web 2.0 upgrades made everyone feel like they had to have a shiny polished site. We lost a lot of fun amateurs.

Once apps started getting pushed websites started to get abandoned/empty. everything from shopping to small games. I shouldn't need an app for the coffee shop.

Bots and bad search operators made looking and finding a chore.

Insta killed blogs, suddenly everyone wanted a insta or YT brand rather than a blog/rss

• Everything became sponsored =- say i wanted to find out how to polish my boots, the first 3 pages and everything everywhere suddenly tries to sell me boots.

This is why i no longer enjoy the internet. I know i sound old man yelling at cloud.

They do. Ironically a lot of users criticise particular group of people of users being in the grip of sky etc.

I know the word addiction isn’t quite right but YT is still a social media.

No the world needs more of you.

Nightmares back to speakers wires that were just never long enough.

I know right. The kinda events that they said this was to protect from rarely occur. When you look back they spruiked the word terror and extremist, over and over to get acceptance and now...well now almost everyone fits in that category if your language or moderate actions are not in flavour.

This is it. Don’t need apps. Don’t need overpriced crap food.

Seems like the bot is listening to conversations around here. Paywalled article.

Cruella de-ville wanted 99 puppies back in the day and no one saw issue with that till it came out why...books, puppies, if you love the product, not wanting them to be used nefariously and choosing to air that moralistic stance rather than just cash in tells you a lot. This lady should be applauded.