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not moving to Nekoweb right now, still deciding if I want to give up Neocities "social media but websites" approach for Nekoweb's benefits (FTP, Nekode, auto-blocking AI crawlers)
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just found out about Nekoweb's Nekode (web-based VSCode) and I'm inches from migrating, anyone here have Nekoweb pages I can follow? lol
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draggianuniverse
1 month ago
I have one under draggianuniverse as a just in case, but don't like Neko's editor, cutesy aesthetic (I prefer websites that feel like they're taking me seriously), or file system layout. I guess if you use WebDAV, that's avoidable, though.
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draggianuniverse
1 month ago
if I were gonna move, it would be if Neocities itself changed unacceptably as a platform or if I moved to a "real" web host with a custom domain. Haven't done that yet because domains are expensive. (plus Nekoweb gives less space.)
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draggianuniverse
1 month ago
might copy my changelog to nekoweb just for you though. I don't want to maintain 2 copies of the site and don't see a good reason to move yet, but that way followers who leave can see what I'm up to
really considering moving this page over to Nekoweb now that I know Kyle Drake (this website's CEO) is *really* into generative AI shit... this little community is cool but I'm fucking *tired* of generative AI slop and the companies that support it
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marshmellosucks
1 month ago
like I guess his opinions aren't *terrible*, he's buying into the self-driving AI bandwagon and a lot of his opinions boil down to "we should just embrace AI!!!", and he doesn't really say anything about generative AI shit like MidJourney? like he mainly talks about research and self driving cars
marshmellosucks
1 month ago
and also he's on the "chatgpt isn't *that* bad for the environment guys!!" bandwagon, sourcing a Substack article that seems a little... meh
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marshmellosucks
1 month ago
honestly may end up moving to Nekoweb anyways because Neocities' WebDAV is *garbage*
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draggianuniverse
1 month ago
I too am aware of that, but hate Nekoweb's editor and cutesy gimmick. Ran into Mr. Drake's blog post last year, assuming the one from 2023 is what you meant? (https://draggianuniverse.neocities.org/miscellanea/generativealgorithms) I don't use socials but AFAIK there isn't much from after 2023?
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draggianuniverse
1 month ago
I guess if I just use WebDAV, I can avoid Nekoweb's stupid layout, but seeing as there has been thus far no overlap between Neocities and Mr. Drake's nonsense that I know of, I find a hard time being pressed to care. I'm allergic to "discourse".
marshmellosucks
1 month ago
he's posted some shit on bluesky, I don't think Neocities blocks genAI crawlers by default like Nekoweb does (in theory I'm blocking them by robots.txt)
draggianuniverse
1 month ago
i have my robots.txt set to block literally everything. i don't care about search engine numbers so I just block *.
re-made my Stereo Tool 10 Signature presets in Stereo Tool 7 so you can use them with older versions! also tried to re-make them in Breakaway One but that's a different beast entirely lol
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marshmellosucks
1 month ago
did this because some people prefer the Stereo Tool 9 UI over the new one, and Stereo Tool 10 preset won't import properly in older versions
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updated the usage terms for my audio processing presets, explicitly carving out student, internet, and LPFM stations while requiring full-power non-commercial and commercial stations to contact me. this is so a little college station or a community station can use my presets freely, but a big "non-profit" religious network has to talk
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From what I see, FTP is a "donator feature".