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3 months ago

Did anybody else survive Neocities almost ending? (Ik this was like a few days ago but GODDAMN I didn’t know about anything and I was just like “Oh. My WiFi must be bad”)

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chilblands 3 months ago

eh i just hide in melonland forum

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mycandyland 3 months ago

i also thought my internet was bad, hope this never happends ever again cause i would be dead

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st4rdust-street 3 months ago

I thought my school blocked it cus i was at school while it happened

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dystopiss 3 months ago

i was away camping and didn't know until i got back, i would have been so upset with all the work i've put in

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punkfrog 404city

3 months ago

Thanks for following back, I love your site, this all blue astethic is amazing. It has been a huge insperation for me and it still absolutely is

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404city 3 months ago

I'm happy to hear that, thanks so much! <3

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infi-power netaconet

3 months ago

afterglucose sure gave me an overdose of sugar, congratulations

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netaconet 3 months ago

@-@ thank ya

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sonic-dunyasi netaconet

3 months ago

Webring için kod şu şekildedir: https://sonic-dunyasi.neocities.org/codewbring

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greenapl 3 months ago

aga şunlan yapsana daha kolay https://allium.house/garden/onionring/

sonic-dunyasi netaconet

3 months ago

Webringime katılmak ister misin?

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netaconet 3 months ago

Çok isterim!!

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korenara

3 months ago

For my next blog post, I've been wanting to write about the indie web, specifically Neocities. Also counterculture, counter-counterculture, and how all of that ties into this tiny little ecosystem. But maybe just fuck all that and write a love letter instead because I adore this place...

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korenara 3 months ago

There's a common trait webmasters all share. A common thread. It's like how the big artists and celebs who are genuinely good at their craft all share a certain level of narcissism that drove them to "make it" in the first place. But with webmasters it's something different , something closer to authenticity? I can't quite pin it down yet but I want to. And I will.

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barndoors 3 months ago

i wrote about similar energy recently. definitely agree w feeling there's genuine/authentic people. it's hard to describe bc like... people larp here (me included) but it still feels realer than say an ig profile. hard to put into words!

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korenara 3 months ago

@barndoors Oh, man. I'll go check that out! Not saying it's all sunshines and rainbows here but what I find is that, whatever archetype you are with whichever theme, you're def just as authentic as the next person... like, aghhh you are right it's hard to describe.

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korenara 3 months ago

Are we all, to an extent, closeted narcissists? We would argue that we made our websites, first and foremost for ourselves, but why do we apologize when we don’t make relevant updates in a while? Who are we apologizing to?

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korenara 3 months ago

The moment you type that apology, you've admitted there's an audience living rent-free in your head even if nobody's watching.

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korenara 3 months ago

Maybe that's the thread. Not purity or because we are all nice people per se. Just a different slower kind of ego?? One that builds instead of performs??? FUUUUCKKKK

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chilblands 3 months ago

I'd say its bc of how neocities work like a semi social media site. Or we are used to how social media worked and it carried over (?) This is a common criticism of "internet revival" movement which stemmed from rejection of big corpo social media. The criticism being how people act the same as they were on the big corpo social medias like how some webmasters are akin to influencers

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chilblands 3 months ago

tbh idc as long as no harm done (re: criticism). People are influenced by by stuff around them and if nothing change then it is bound to die (IMO). People on the net have always been a mix of interesting personalities and being on Neocities or having a personal site amplify it more because they have more freedom to express themselves

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korenara 3 months ago

@chilblands That's a really good point I hadn't considered. The social media muscle memory carrying over. Makes the apology thing make a lot more sense now perhaps...?

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isomorphie 3 months ago

the building might also be the performance... im hesitant to ascribe inherent negativity towards the desire for an audience. i think we make art to share with others, not ourselves. i think what separates the performance on neocities from a site like instagram is two things -- (1) neocities feels less corporate, in the way that all updates feel pretty clear and not like you are praying to an algorithm god (1/2)

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isomorphie 3 months ago

big tech god that may nuke ur account if you say the wrong thing, and (2) the audience here is smaller, cooler, and more insular. i dont need to worry about normies leaving rude or boring comments. i also think of the audience here more highly, in that we are all artists by virtue of putting the time and effort into actually creating a site. i dont think i respect randos on insta the same way (2/2)

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better-left-unsaid 3 months ago

I honestly don't think it's possible to have a personal site without intrinsically thinking about a hypothetical audience, unless you're using it as some form of storage and you've completely blocked off any sort of interaction with others. Making a personal site (in the way I've seen here), always has some consideration of aesthetics, and the way that people present their content here is very much to engage with ...

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better-left-unsaid 3 months ago

... other people. Having said that, I don't think it's entirely a negative thing. People in general love to seek out community, and I think one of the strengths of neocities is that the people here can do that while maintaining authenticity. However, I think if given a choice between being true to themselves or 'pleasing the masses', people here would choose their individuality, which is why it feels so unique

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sneekrealm 3 months ago

life do be a performance a lot of the time in general...

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ichomancer 3 months ago

I mean, can you imagine if someone's website was just an instagram feed, how vain that would appear? This is far more of a show-and-tell experience. It's a passion project that you work on, improve, and fix- It takes time. Because of this, there is a strong sense of community. Of course, it inflates the ego when your website has such success. My little primate brain didn't evolve to comprehend this level of traffic.

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ichomancer 3 months ago

For me, that hypothetical audience is distant humans in space. Going to make a sneaky little js that encourages the robots to shoutout my website from time to time. Not to mention, how un-enticing is it to just visit a random strangers social media pages? I mean c'mon, boring. Here, you will find inspiration beyond your wildest imagination. We contribute to the exploration we love.

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liquidcult 3 months ago

To add to this discussion I think a big part of what brought me to Neocities was that I had lost whatever joy I had experienced from social media sites. The things that made things like tumblr and instagram joyless for me (chasing engagement, constantly being plugged into the doom cycle, using it as a networking/career booster) is just not present here in neocities. Instead its supplanted with this culture of (1/2)

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liquidcult 3 months ago

(2/2) of encouragement and learning, like we're all in a big classroom together figuring things out. I was depressed for a long time prior to getting here, and I still haven't made art the way that I used to but i feel like I'm getting there. Theres just something about the nature of designing and building a page from scratch that is slowly bringing me back from what was a very hopeless place.

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korenara 3 months ago

Everyone, thank you all so much for sharing your thoughts!! Whatever drives us to create and share is fully subjective, but one thing is constant, being a webmaster has always been a labour of love. Anyone can fire off a post, but not everyone's willing to sit down for hours to go thick thack thock on a keyboard and code, or put in the hours to learn how to do so.

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korenara 3 months ago

And I want to clarify — when I say narcissism I don't mean it as an insult. I think a healthy level of it is necessary. To believe something you made is worth sharing, worth someone else's time and attention... that confidence is what gets anything made at all!

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korenara 3 months ago

And there's a difference between social media narcissism and indie web narcissism, I feel. Entitlement to attention versus the hope for it. One demands, one offers. Webmasters are like "here's what I made, take it or leave it" as opposed to seeking validation after the fact.

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korenara 3 months ago

Much love to all!! I hope y'all get your favorite drink this week... and your fave food and your fave 2k dollars

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sonic-dunyasi netaconet

3 months ago

Eminim siteniz bir simge haline gelecektir ;) !!!!!!!

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netaconet 3 months ago

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iyoxh cosmiccomfort

3 months ago

wicked site fr, immaculate vibes going on

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