I’ve been an enjoyer of the indieweb for quite some time, I’ve read many blogs and started some too. There’s something about reading about the life of someone you don’t know that captures me - it has been fun to do it on neocities when i was younger, here on nekoweb the vibe is a little different. The audience is - for some reason way younger, which makes it harder to relate and weirder to see. Is that a TikTok thing?

Nekoweb seems nicer to me, although my main site (i’ll never tell) is hosted on neocities, I like the way nekoweb handles things a little better. The vibe about neocities is that it’s dying, it’s going to die! - i don’t think so. Neocities had a big boom in 2019 due to a Serial Experiments Lain fansite ran by some incel trying to be really really edgy and cool, it was in style for Lain fans in 2019 - that side was being applauded by horror slop youtube channels - this era was short lived and if you look at google trends you will find that it has been on a steady rise.

I’m not sure why people are coming to the Indie Web, perhaps Elon Musk’s mismanagement of Twitter has been that catastrophic to online spaces. I don’t discard that possibility, the audience i see here do fit the demographic pretty well. It is impressive that these digital expats have the the patience to learn web design, good on you guys.

Thouhgh it concerns me that a lot of the driving force for these websites is a desire to “break free” of social-media shackles, but it seems inneficient to do that in a web-site based platform. The idea through personal websites used to be the way people on the internet communicated is anachronistic, before facebook , forums existed - and before that, hell, the internet was just a huge series of forums. Making a blog is a dead practice i like being back, though many sites are less blogs and more carrds - no problem with that, of course… just know that “no masters but webmasters” won’t make social spaces.

I advise that it is misplaced to put your hopes in indie web for your social internet needs. I fear it is impossible to create the internet how it used to be, no one is going to use a forum - Reddit is fine. It works fine for niche things, if you want to find the best notebook, coffeemaker, backpack. Sadly we need to deal with this sad predictment of Reddit being the only true forum remaining. I guess the popular US-based forums are still up, but no one that’s normal uses them, subculture’s all dead - vultures are feeding on corpse.

All that said, I love blogs, I love reading blogs, please make more blogs, I will read them all - sorry and thank you.