I just noticed onio unlisted his Neocities video that blew up on YouTube. I almost considered making my own video to take its place but then I remembered how nice it is to keep this place growing slowly. Not in like a weird gatekeepy we're-all-better-than-the-normies way but in a the-world-sucks-and-I'm-afraid-of-losing-Neocities-to-viral-growth way
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yeah. especially because nowadays attention = ddos attacks from bots, and i dont think neocities has enough funding to reliably counterract a botnet if one were to target it
yeah but also I don't think a lot of people would join. Making a website is way harder than just creating an account and adding a picture :/
@nexos-den And that's why Neocities will stay good :)
I dont think its bad that ppl are finding out about indie web through videos!! (thats how I partially found out, because I B watching videoz) I wanna encourage more ppl to switch off socials to make their own sites!! however brachy has a point abt the bots...
i am a big supporter of more people moving away from mainstream socials, and there's plenty of free site templates around that i always like to encourage new users to play with (after all, i got into coding through making templates for my forum pages back when those were still cool). the greater concern is in greater userbase = greater expenses = selling out = enshittification