Hello Federico,
I'm more than happy to have a link to your site.
I can only get your front page to work, all of your other links take me to example "Welcome to my website!" neocities pages. Are these pages still unwritten?
There are lots of interesting niche communities out there that do not want to move onto social media sites. They're hard to find, unfortunately, but some of them are really interesting. Eg Pouet
https://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=8787N.B. I'm reading and quoting from an auto-translated version of your site.
> I must admit that the main initiative was also to have a form of escape from the current condition of the internet, in which day by day it is losing personality thanks to social networks. It's been a while since I got my ass out of there and for the better. That is why I see the need to have a personal contact method.
I agree. The services social media sites provide to users are every-changing illusions that care little about information quality, strength or permanence. Users are seen as objects to be manipulated or played against each other to increase engagement or other goals. Every story, write-up, experience and photo submitted to a social media site is temporary: doomed to die some years in the future when the site owner deems it of low financial value.
I used to make mods for video games many years back. I uploaded the zip files to various file-sharing sites and my images to various image-hosting sites. These are now all gone forever. They were not great mods, but I used to make my own textures from my own photos and I had quite a bit of fun, so losing them forever is something I regret heavily.
I now only upload things to my own site (and I keep backups!) so that I can ensure my stuff, even the old stuff that I'm a bit embarrassed about, can stay available online for as long as possible. It also means I don't have to worry about social media algorithms or other complex systems.
There is a period of history called the 'dark ages' where very little written material survived from. I think we're now in a second dark age, where the vast volumes of stories, images and videos we make are now doomed to be lost in 10 or 20 years time. Simultaneously it's a period where a lot of large online companies realised they can dramatically manipulate human behaviours. Historians of the future are going to be very angry with us for not keeping more evidence from such an interesting period of human history
Do whatever you want on your site. Put stuff up that you would want to read. Don't do any more work on it than you want to or worry about what other people will think. Just make sure to keep backups!
Regards, Hales
