Remember when websites used to be just websites?

Just a little site for someone to call their own.

It didn’t matter if people visited or not — it was there because the person creating it had a desire to build and maintain it.

And yes, I said “Person”. NOT “user”.

Websites didn’t have to be “socially connected” and posting back and forth with APIs and messages. Don’t get me wrong – I think the indieweb and activitypub are nice things. But I can’t help but yern for a simpler time.

(Yes my website posts are discoverable via activitypub) But I’m now only interested in sending out one way (as opposed to following loads of people and scrolling just as I would on twitter et al.

I will still welcome friendly comments and will also reply where possible.

I’m sick of scrolling. And I’m sick of “consuming”, as the marketing/bullshit “influencers would have you call it.

I just want a little website where I post my thoughts; my ideas; my observations; my peeves.

Whoever comes around, I welcome you with open arms. Unless you are an LLM training scraper, in which case you can FUCK THE HELL OFF. YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.

love to the humans out there.