whoa this is so sick

WHAAAAT you made that??

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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