What if i asked others to post here? What if i made it easy for anyone to? What if this was also my whole website, with a tag system? What if this was EVERYONE's whole website? and social media too? BLOCIAL MEDIA
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You'll just press [write new post], add a [title] (optional, otherwise it's a mini), a [name], optional [tags], and write. draw. We'll all see it chronoligically. 0 alg, just navigation. You can find it by time, author, or tags, non-heirarchically. You can then go to your own author page (if you sign up), and edit it to make it your own. But here's the cool thing, it could just be rss. Ok why's that a cool thing?
You now have your own website. It's up. It has navigation too. It gets built automatically. Blocial media.[2] Mid effort cyber-socialising. It's more pressure than a tweet, but not much. It's just us, for the non-imaginary future at least. You're also anyone, logging in is just an option. It's lower pressure than publishing something proper, but not less easy to visually make your own (and it will ALWAYS stay very readable, I promise I wont let you eak that). It'll also just be simple html too, so you can back it up, remake it. Integrate the live one still. So we're making tumblr but wordpress but bluesky but substack, with pretty pictures everywhere too.
but unlike all those it doesn't get swallowed up, it doesnt get lost. doesn't become a deep mess that's so hard to engage with you need more and more content. a bit like journal, just not closed or dusty.
Really anything. Essays, articles, poems, comic strips, paintings, cat pics, jokes, tips. I'll probably stick to random tips, and updates on software things I've found or started... for a while at least. So much bottled genius. (Hopefully this organises it for me too). But please don't let me set the scene. Anything that follows the neo-cities guidelines is more than welcome. The minimum effort is making something nice, but not rereading it. Your stories you have in some notes, that list of hilarious band names, tshirt designs, -- ooh there'll be a weekly self-deleting comment section, so you can share an email if you want.
tangentially related but
this article rocks -- enshittification guy is not a lib. He says we need healthy and free online spaces to organise on. Democracy, not begging. Let's see how high we can get that post #.