Is this thing on?

It's a webring Charlie Brown.

Okay, y'all got me. I won't join substack because it's filled with nazis, unlike Twitch, Youtube, tumblr, which definitely did not have their ranks filled with people pushing white genocide conspiracies and took 10 years to ban Alex Jones, their no. 1 user for years being a man who was shouted out during a white supremacist shooting or anything....

But, since I've always been on the fence about monetizing my rambles, it's time to try out some alternatives.

The truth is that it has always been apparent that bluesky didn't have a real "place" because it was a leftover of the crypto-boom. They've tried to hide that sordid little history but their angel investor being Blockchain Capital and all of their talks of "de-centralization" left their little digicoin grabby handprints all over each press release about ATprotocol.

That doesn't mean that I think ATprotocol is a *bad* idea necessarily, I was already algorithm agnostic at that point having been a UX designer who'd read too many books with names like Weapons of Math Destruction and Manufacturing Consent.

My natural curiosity has gotten ahold of me, it'll probably kill me one day. My boyfriend always says I act like a cat for a reason.

Who can blame me?

The internet fucking sucks right now.

But none of you want to leave, come on, admit it. Forums still exist, neocities and nekoweb and indie hosts are booming with teenie boppers looking to relive a past they weren't even swimming around in their daddy's balls for - but everyone is addicted, the western world's opium wars in reverse - Tiktok's illegal now or something.

The truth is that I'm prepping for the inevitability of crackdowns - not just of social media platforms, but of Internet Service Providers themselves. We're starting to see a virtual mason-dixon line form along porn laws and things are only going to get worst in the incoming years until we're forced to decentralize, we may even see the emergence of new internet protocols - a callback to the era before HTTP's pre-eminence as the ultimate "internet" that we see today.

So here I am, practicing HTML and CSS again, making websites, working on webrings, writing longer missives to train my attention - and trying out places that might not be popular just yet. The kinds of websites and services that may die out and find new life later on in the features of other places.

I hope that you'll consider coming along for the ride as I start working into this new era of the digital - it's gonna get real fucking weird.

Oh and consider visiting my website or subbing on here, I'll be detailing my longer thoughts as things progress.