ha, well i hope you are OK with a very drastic non-sequitor, Gans, but another podcast I like with a funnily appropriate name covered some of the early internet organizing of the far right: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/75-tom-metzger-part-1
I guess i have read also a bit of the history of BBS's and forums and experienced a bit of it myself when i was much much younger, toward the end of their popularity i was on a few different forums.
There definitely is an annoying bit about splintering off, but to me i see that as a kind of "natural lifecycle" of things like this - the big social media are like Frankenstein monsters which are kept alive by artificial life support... there needs to be a true "ecosystem" that is alive and changing, instead of what has been the case for Web2.0 which has just been less of an ecosystem and more of a petri dish
My favorite podcast, TrueAnon has uploaded a new episode about the internet!!! Very excited to listen, since this and a lot of other podcasts I like don't tend to cover the issue of the problems with the internet, although trueanon and Behind The Bastards have done good stuff on it.
They are interviewing Ben Tarnoff, author of a forthcoming book from Verso called Internet for the People. Let's have a listen and discussion of the episode? I haven't listened yet but will be while I clean today.
Let me know if you know any other podcasts that have done good in depth episodes on the internet.
ads are cool if they are for small folks doing stuff and aren't obtrusive. i like them and actually like what others were saying when they are curated i actually really enjoy them and they are helpful.
i wish that the neolink and other neocities ad embeds were more frequently updated though cause i pretty much only get the same like half a dozen or so pages advertised so i stopped putting them on my site cause it felt bad just advertising a tiny number of people unfairly.
claydoll and driflblim are awesome!!! i also have always loved golbat.
i shall certainly be a Channeler im not superstitious or believe in anything paranormal, but if pokemon were real i would absolutely be a channeler no doubt and spend all my time in lavender town aaaaaa!!! that would be so awesome
my lineup:
Banette - my #1 favorite pokemon
Muk - because slime is cool lol
Shedinja - because super cute
Koffing - cause he can levitate which is cool, and poison moves are cool + im a nerd for 1st gen
Clamperl.... not ghost but... so cute ...
prolly Magnemite because i still am a tech nerd :omg:k: but dont rly like the obvious choice of rotom
:omg:k: yeah lol. it is a really cool feature i wish they made it clearer how it is used. having a pretty much free way to store data is great. if neocities did more in promoting ipfs i'd love it...
the only reason ipfs really struggles at this point is that people just think its some cryptocurrency scam. but ipfs has nothing to do with blockchain. it has even been endorsed by the Internet Archive as what the world wide web is supposed to be like and a better alternative to http. i get that people are suspicious because Filecoin is a token that can be exchanged for money, but anyone running an ipfs node needs/deserves that money because its a lot of work.
there has been over and over again for the past years a bunch of confusion about IPFS and neocities. The blog post and user interface don't really make things much simpler.
If you know the basics of what IPFS is (kinda like bittorrent but the whole internet, not just certain files) then youre probably confused "where is my IPFS backup site:dunno:?"
Well, its actually on a button called "Archives" on your sites page :omg:k:
took me forever to actually find this for some reason, but yeah. It is right there on your sites page.
It is rather weird that the neocities interface doesnt actually have any way for you to search for sites BY NAME, and it also doesnt have a convenient way to get to your sites page. you can get there by going to a url like this:
neocities.org/site/yoursitesname !!!
yoursitesname is the same name as is used in your neocities.org subdomain.
this is also how you can find other peoples site pages and if they have archvies, view their site over IPFS. it is really silly that there isnt the above mentioned functionality but it seems that neocities' dev is awol.
so, i guess i thoguht i would just put this here for people who wonder about it! in my experience, the IPFS archiving works pretty great and is recovered really fast! im pretty impressed with it.
it isnt much but a strange world to wander around in. i was going to do more with it, but i was using Blend4Web and blender has now gotten rid of Game Engine :'( also, Blend4Web is just very big, slow, and hard to understand... I did enjoy making this though, not sure if i will do anything more with it. :omg:k:
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im not superstitious or believe in anything paranormal, but if pokemon were real i would absolutely be a channeler no doubt and spend all my time in lavender town aaaaaa!!! that would be so awesome
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