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2 hours ago

worm

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1 day ago

Not keeping of likes and other stuff on my art gallery has been great in my opinion for interaction, I feel like many places I've seen people share their art (eg. Discord, Bluesky) lack interaction on art because likes and reactions encourage laziness and lack of interaction by clicking a button instead of writing an opinion and interacting with others in my opinion

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tabf5 23 hours ago

I agree and hope the Neocities feed will continue to stay text-only because of this

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amaxivermis

4 days ago

With the Dragon March trailer helping the game get more popular, I should mention I'm actually the one who helped out with the webpage and made one asset for the game

6 likes

tabf5 4 days ago

Real ones know 🤝

1 like

ichomancer 4 days ago

Woah, awesome! Haven't heard of it until know, I love the visual style!

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duvarki 3 days ago

Just searched up the trailer, it looks really good! I love the concept and the aesthetic, very cool!

1 like

amaxivermis updated their site.

1 week ago

homepage

contributions

4 likes

amaxivermis 1 week ago

not a whole bunch, just some small updates

1 like

tabf5 1 week ago

that's okay i love this website and it never gets old

1 like

amaxivermis

2 weeks ago

Caught up with the feed and my comments now, thanks everyone for your websites, I'll start surfing again soon

3 likes

amaxivermis

2 weeks ago

I promise I'll catch up on my feed and read all of the messages I haven't read across my spots soon aaaa, sorry about this stuff this week was a bit rough but I promise I'll get back to it

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amaxivermis

3 weeks ago

For now I've made a server on Discord for the game, I'll get more on my website soon about it but I would like to start building a community for the game early, and of course I'll be posting about progress and small stuff about it and it is also a bit of a spot to hang out as well, and don't give Discord any money, but here it is: https://discord.gg/Hg6ssHWnWN

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tabf5 2 weeks ago

debating if I'll join or not. I tend to avoid Discord but that game does look sick

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amaxivermis 2 weeks ago

It's fine and I don't really use it except for messaging friends and a few communtiies, I just want to start off a small community for now and I would start a forum but I don't know if anyone would be interested in it

amaxivermis updated their site.

3 weeks ago

homepage

contributions

3 likes

amaxivermis 3 weeks ago

Just added in that project I'm working on to the main works section, although I have made a new art piece today (doing so at snail speed lol) but enjoy

2 likes

amaxivermis

4 weeks ago

I will start a subpage for a project I am currently working on, but right now I am doing some videos on YouTube (since I need to get my stuff out...) but I have this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYZx4Iwy5oiuxQlR2AAAsq9iNhTgWam8v

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ruztbug 4 weeks ago

whoa this is so sick

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tabf5 4 weeks ago

WHAAAAT you made that??

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duvarki 3 weeks ago

This is awesome!! Cannot wait to see more info on it

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amaxivermis updated their site.

4 weeks ago

pages/webrings

index

homepage

guestbook

fun-stuff

external

contributions

blog

art

about-me

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amaxivermis 4 weeks ago

I made it so if it detects AI sources (like the infamous utm_source=chatgpt.com) in the URL you get redirected to something

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tabf5 4 weeks ago

Can you add that one banner you had of the two lizards on a worm to the art gallery? That render was sick

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amaxivermis 4 weeks ago

sure i'll add it in later

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amaxivermis updated their site.

1 month ago

blog

pages/webrings

homepage

external

1 like

amaxivermis updated their site.

1 month ago

pages/webrings

homepage

amaxivermis 1 month ago

not a whole bunch, just made a few changes and I might look at how I can do the opengraph cards for art soon

amaxivermis

1 month ago

worm for you https://file.garden/aejXxcl_-hvXF5h6/sketches/worm-1.png

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amaxivermis 1 month ago

(not mine, it's amby's, but I made him come up with one :>)

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amaxivermis dabric

1 month ago

I'd like to give the fediverse [or mastodon] a try soon, and while you have given a bit of your experience to me before and I've seen that post about it from last year, I wonder how your experience has in terms of interactions and stuff since that post in more detail and some more things i should know about before i start

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dabric 1 month ago

hm interactions... the fedi is a bit lacking with art, but people still very much engage with it (like, my most popular posts are my art). i'd say it's more personal posts about happenings and hobbies, though. people tend to reply more, i think. maybe not a lot more than bluesky, but still more

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dabric 1 month ago

also: i've heard people say otherwise when mastodon was initially popular, but the server/instance you choose matters greatly. it determines the people you first see, the people that first see you, what the algorithm can recommend, and the moderators. i started off on wetdry.world, which i think was a pretty good starting point, and much of the people there also dabble with the indieweb

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dabric 1 month ago

i could probably expand more later cuz i'm dealing with a nasty headache rn

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amaxivermis 1 month ago

it's alright, I still wouldn't have my account as a place for my content primarily since I've got my homepage and I know i've made that massive rant about microblogging as art galleries but I do want to have more places for reach, I know about the merping.synth.download instance and maybe it might be a good starting point, but you can expand some more if you want and hopefully your headache is better

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amaxivermis 1 month ago

I have also been sitting down about bluesky and while I have moved off it given how i have seen it change, one of the main reasons why i kinda moved off it was that interaction part, although i dont know if ill return given my previous stuff but i might think about it some more anyways

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amaxivermis

1 month ago

Unfortunately, I realized I made a huge mistake with the lizard webring widget and used the wrong method to detect the parent iframe url which ended up throwing errors on websites other than my own, although the good news is that I fixed it a couple of hours ago today and now the widget should work 100% as intended after I checked the members

2 likes

amaxivermis updated their site.

1 month ago

index

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tabf5 1 month ago

thats a baller thumbnail

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amaxivermis

1 month ago

I don't know if I was missing something or I find it easier to build a following on this part of the web than I have on most social networks I've been on despite the latter having the audience that would be interested in my stuff the most (umm, critters y'know), perhaps with this place not only do people interact with each other more, but there's also more diversity in content too which also changed my mindset too

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amaxivermis 1 month ago

But even with everyone else being different then I can still be myself and I still have had the stuff you find on my stuff I was really into since the very start

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tabf5 1 month ago

I think it's like a combination of the amount of people on here being so low, so you value the interactions on here a lot more, mixed with the fact that there are infinite ways to build a website vs the two pictures you can set on a standard social media profile. Also all the people on here have the patience to build a website at all, making interactions super-rewarding. It all works so damn good together

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amaxivermis 1 month ago

Oh yeah making a website takes time but in hindsight it's actually a good thing. I have also personally started growing a distain of discord servers including one of my friends (no offense, he's cool) but to me it feels like nobody really cares about you until a certain point in those places and I'm someone who gives up very easily when I keep failing with no progress, but here it's like we're all in this together

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vermi1ion 1 month ago

I think a part of the appeal is that the barrier to entry is pretty high (knowing html/css, designing a layout, etc.). It feels like everyone on here appreciates each other a lot more because of how much effort we're all putting into our creations. Anyone can post on IG or Twitter but it takes a lot to make a custom site.

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win1999 1 month ago

Neocities is great. It somehow manages to pull off the old web while still having a very basic social media implementation.

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plastigon amaxivermis

1 month ago

Thanks for the follow! Checked out your site and WOW is it crazy cool. I love how your About page is literally just a desktop interface, and I was blown away with all the little "apps" and popup windows. The CD system on there is super cool too! I also really just like the Windows Vista-esque theme of your entire site in general! Brings me back to my old Acer laptop I had a while ago LOL. Awesome stuff!

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amaxivermis 1 month ago

Ayy I'm glad you liked my website :) and also your website was great too, I liked the interactivity of it and thank you for the follow back too!

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amaxivermis updated their site.

1 month ago

about-me/qna

pages/webrings

blog

blog/social-media-art-gallery

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amaxivermis 1 month ago

A new blog post, very ranty one but it's important to me and if you're very into art it's a good read for you

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amaxivermis 1 month ago

also got rss feeds for blog, art, and fun mini stuff or whatever too if you haven't figured just yet

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tabf5 1 month ago

Absolutely agreed on how bad it is when artists just store their primary entire gallery on a microblogging site that forces you to make an account half the time, mixed in with all their other personal posts and retweets and everything. I've had multiple different projects on those older sites beforehand in the past decade, and it would always end in burnout because the individual posts on there slowly dont matter. It

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tabf5 1 month ago

becomes a game of how-often-can-you-post to stay seen by others and not drown in the noise of everyone else doing the same thing. I get why it would be overwhelming for an artist to build their own gallery like a Neocities page, but they should definitely at least have an account elsewhere to browse the art like Newgrounds/Cara/others you mentioned. Also I still think RSS is too clunky but perhaps I've been spoiled

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tabf5 1 month ago

by how good the Neocities feed is. Ultimately I think the best solution for artists in the long term is new platforms like Neocities and Toyhouse and such, where they have to keep trying even if it seems like microblogging apps are the only apps to give a shit about. All microblogging apps are doomed to eventually become the shouting war other mainstream platforms are. YouTube is also slightly guilty of this

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amaxivermis 1 month ago

@tabf5 yeah I agree with you on toyhouse, newgrounds, etc being the best option since most artists don't have the skill of maintaining a website, although it's a great solution if you do which I have. And yeah i have to admit RSS is a little clunky, particularly with setting up but for me it's infinitely better than having to make many accounts just to stay in touch with the stuff I care about.

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amaxivermis 1 month ago

Either way, i think we can all agree that having to create accounts just to see information is terrible, and the problems with microblogging with you and I have faced very similar problems with you too on some microblogging sites as well, sure some are better than others, but none of them are really meant to be for art

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amaxivermis 1 month ago

I kinda misread neocities as newgrounds oops, but I still think the point applies, although either way whichever solution works best for each artist is the one that should be done

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tabf5 1 month ago

Pro tip btw: you can edit any Twitter link to xcancel .com to view profiles and tweet replies without having to make a stupid account!

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amaxivermis 1 month ago

Oh yeah i've been using nitter for quite a while, it's a massive live saver and thank god they revived it

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amaxivermis vermi1ion

1 month ago

I did a sketch of your mascot guy during a drawpile with friends: https://file.garden/aejXxcl_-hvXF5h6/sketches/vermilion-1.png

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vermi1ion 1 month ago

Dude this is so sick! Thank you!

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tabf5 1 month ago

Oh this RULES

1 like

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