Everything starts here (or why i'm making this site)
So after god knows how long im finally making this blog/site, to put it simply, i'm tired of the current corporate hell state of the internet and i want it to feel cozy again. It also provides therapeutic value to me as I can vent my thoughts, good or bad in a healthy format.
Im gonna try to break down what makes the new internet so frustrating to me and why it blows dick out of ass.
1.Everything looks the same
Every web site follows the exact-same-template. Its wild how every single website looks like a clone of each other with some small added touches like simple animations for images and text or different color palettes. Even the goddamm fonts look the same, its like silicon valley has put us back into high school where everyone cares about how they look so they must act and appear the same in fear of being ostracized.
2.Censorship
I will try to keep politics at a minimum here but its hard to say anything without having someone misinterpret what you say and use it as fuel for a witch hunt, or, have the bots that crawl the website mistake your post for hate speech for being too dumb. I like to speak freely as i believe i nothing i have to say is fundamentally dangerous or misleading and i would like the individual reader to come to their own conclusions about what i speak rather than having a bot or board of directors decide it for them.
3.Lack of freedom and customization
Ties into 1 but every social media platform has insanely rigid standards on what you can change, in most places you will be lucky if you can change anything besides a profile picture and a banner, i want to be in control of every single visual aspect of the site.
- Algorithms, conditioning and malicious design
Every modern platform is design to keep your eyes glued on the screen for as long as possible by bombarding you with information that you don't need and providing mechanisms to keep you engaged in nonsensical scrolling.Not to mention the outright incentive to promote inflammatory and toxic content, i want to be in a healthy place and promote healthy posting.
So what now?
You may have noticed how lackluster this place is, well…Im figuring it out as i go, i plan to add images, customize the theme and make this place a bit more “me” and overall better looking as time goes on so i apologize for how barren and bland it might feel to you as a viewer.
With that out of the way all i really want is to have my own personal place to vent my thoughts and maybe share some creativity, im a hermit so thats sort of my natural state of being and with the internet being taken away as my cozy place of comfort its a matter of making my own space.
Hopefully, i can make this into an actual decent site eventually, till then i see you around.