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thunderlina · 29 days ago

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In the wake of the TikTok ban and revival as a mouthpiece for fascist propaganda, as well as the downfall of Twitter and Facebook/Facebook-owned platforms to the same evils, I think now is a better time than ever to say LEARN HTML!!! FREE YOURSELVES FROM THE SHACKLES OF MAJOR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND EMBRACE THE INDIE WEB!!!

You can host a website on Neocities for free as long as it's under 1GB (which is a LOT more than it sounds like let me tell you) but if that's not enough you can get 50GB of space (and a variety of other perks) for only $5 a month.

And if you can't/don't want to pay for the extra space, sites like File Garden and Catbox let you host files for free that you can easily link into NeoCities pages (I do this to host videos on mine!) (It also lets you share files NeoCities wouldn't let you upload for free anyways, this is how I upload the .zip files for my 3DS themes on my site.)

Don't know how to write HTML/CSS? No problem. W3schools is an invaluable resource with free lessons on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and a whole slew of other programming languages, both for web development and otherwise.

Want a more traditional social media experience? SpaceHey is a platform that mimics the experience of 2000s MySpace

Struggling to find independent web pages that cater to your interests via major search engines? I've got you covered. Marginalia and Wiby are search engines that specifically prioritize non-commercial content. Marginalia also has filters that let you search for more specific categories of website, like wikis, blogs, academia, forums, and vintage sites.

Maybe you wanna log off the modern internet landscape altogether and step back into the pre-social media web altogether, well, Protoweb lets you do just that. It's a proxy service for older browsers (or really just any browser that supports HTTP, but that's mostly old browsers now anyways) that lets you visit restored snapshots of vintage websites.

Protoweb has a lot of Geocities content archived, but if you're interested in that you can find even more old Geocities sites over on the Geocities Gallery

And really this is just general tip-of-the-iceberg stuff. If you dig a little deeper you can find loads more interesting stuff out there. The internet doesn't have to be a miserable place full of nothing but doomposting and targeted ads. The first step to making it less miserable is for YOU, yes YOU, to quit spending all your time on it looking at the handful of miserable websites big tech wants you to spend all your time on.

#this is a side point so it's going here but I really think tech literacy should be a requirement in schools like math grammar history etc.#we live in a world so dominated by the stuff and yet a majority of the population does not understand it at even the most fundamental level #tiktok #tiktok ban #indie web #neocities #web development #current events #twitter #facebook #meta #amazon

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seveneyesoup · 1 year ago

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#TO CLARIFY ON THE SECOND POINT: VAMPIRES *HAVE* A REPRODUCTION METHOD THAT IS NOT SEX-BASED #THAT IS THE MAJOR POINT OF THAT ONE. THAT VAMP REPRODUCTION IS BASED ON CONVERTING INTO UNDEAD AND NOT PREGNANCY #what i think i keep coming back to is that a vampire is like. a form of pathogen or perhaps parasite #is the individual vampire meaningfully distinct from that? maybe #sort of a made up question #but that’s not a mammal #so neither is a vampire #but also like. a human is a mammal #this question sponsored by my friend who said she was done keeping mammals bc ‘they have so much fluid in them’#and my thought that a vampire Wouldn’t #not a lot of fluids. happening there

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thebibliosphere · 2 years ago

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Folks announcing they're leaving Tumblr because they're unhappy with the Twitter clone dashboard on desktop. (I don't blame you, it's broken af.) Meanwhile, the day this hellsite finally does close, staff are going to have to pry me out of the air vents like a rabid raccoon that's adapted to survive on drinking air conditioning coolant and whatever trash is left lying around in the breakroom.

#listen #I've been around for the death of several major social sites over the years #I'm just eating metaphorical popcorn at this point

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ed-recoverry · 2 months ago

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THERE ARE NO USELESS MAJORS!!

Learning about theater is important! Learning about art is important! Learning about sociology is important! Learning about history is important! Learning about anthropology is important! Learning about philosophy important! Learning about music is important! Learning about English is important! Learning about dance is important! Learning about photography is important! Learning about art history is important! Learning about ethnic studies is important! Learning about theology is important! Learning about performing arts is important!

Usefulness does not equal high income!

All education is important!

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gingerswagfreckles · 4 days ago

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It's weird how in the past 5 or so years the left's understanding of decolonization devolved into some kind of weird Nazi era eugenicist thing about how people's "true places" are something encoded in their DNA and no one in the history of the world should have moved anywhere and anyone decendent from people who moved at some point should be shot.

#gingerswagfreckles #if anyond tries to say this is an exaggeration btw i WILL rip your head off #as if it isnt a major talking point on the left that it's ok to kill israelis because their skin cancer rates prove #they're in the Wrong Place regardless of how many hundreds of years their family has lived there #jumblr #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #and yeah yeah i know that jews are indigenous to the levant i am making a slightly adjacent point #about the extremely weird opinion the left has that if one is not indigenous to an area it is acceptable to Literally Kill Them #regardless of how either they or their ancestors arrived in that area. regardless of how the answer for 99% of those non indigenous people #is just oh i moved here from my mother's vagina #also ofc we have the whole issue of this being selectively applied to the western world while imperialism and colonialism Doesnt Count #outside of the west #but i digress

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aniseandspearmint · 1 year ago

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I am curious, bc I just ran across one of those, 'everyone remembers where they were when 9/11 happened!' things so-

This isn't meant to be a commentary on the event, just whether or not you remember where you were/what you were doing when the news hit.

As an example, I was home sick, doing dishes, when mom yelled for me to get in the living room RIGHT NOW.

#it was a Big Event #it was the taking off point to a LOT of bs the world over #i have heard MANY people say that EVERYONE surely remembers where they were and what they were doing #but even though i happen to remember I don't know if its accurate to say the majority do?#i am curious #tumblr #polls

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lotus-pear · 2 months ago

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i love you royal trio (minus akechi)

#i was listening to the world we knew by frank sinatra while drawing this to inflict maximum emotional damage 😔#royal actually shot me fifty times in the chest and slaughtered my entire family #i’m actually inconsolable over the ending what the fuck do you mean akechi chooses to die of his own volition rather than be manipulated #god it’s just. his character actually makes me violent and insane. they’re going to drag me kicking and screaming to the psych ward #he never had an ounce of control over his life. not even once. he was CONSTANTLY being yanked around like a marionette #until he was disposed of as another pawn in shido’s plan #and then out of some cruel irony he was resurrected even though he did not want to be alive #for once in death he would have found peace—only for that to be taken from him too.#and bc he thinks he’s worthless and his life is so easily gambled away he doesn’t view it as a major dealbreaker when maruki brings it up #“do you really think something as trivial as my life should stand in the way of your decision?” yes you fucking asshole #what do you mean he’s literally fated to die in every timeline? definition of doomed by the narrative #there’s not a single version of his story that doesn’t end with him being slaughtered #GODDDDD he makes me violently ill i hate goro akechi so much he’s so fucking selfish HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THAT THIS DEAL IS TEARING ME APART #i was so tempted to get the bad ending just so that he was alive ☹️#he looked so happy. he was surrounded by people who loved and treasured him.no shido. control over his life. the ability to choose his futu #TEARS IN MY EYES MARUKI WAS THE ONLY VILLAIN WHO WAS LOWKEY MAKING SENSE 😭😭😭😭😭#my toxic trait is that i think maruki was right all along 😔#ALSO SUMIRE AAUUGGHHHH 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭#the survivors guilt literally eating her alive until the point where she gaslighted herself into thinking she was her sister. insane.#royal was so good bro i’m so glad i endured 200 hours of hell just to play it #terrible terrible ending with everyone going their separate ways and ren ending up in juvie for months #akechi actually being dead in the good ending is so fucked up 😭😭 i thought there was some way maruki could bring him back regardless #not ren hallucinating him in the last cutscene too 😭😭😭😭 “i still see your shadows in my room” ahh ending #persona 5 royal #persona 5 #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #sumire yoshizawa #goro akechi #lotus draws

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orbch · 2 months ago

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idk why i drew this maybe catharsis who knows

#not liking the background but like. not really the point so its finneeeee #slime DGAFFFFFFF look at his face #quackity #quackity fanart #slimecicle #slimecicle fanart #quackcicle #dapduo #dreamsmp #dreamsmp fanart #mcyt #mcyt fanart #mcytblr #quackity dropped this stream a day after his bday which is like great job on ending this chapter. major props #but he also dropped it a day after MY bday so also FUCK HIM!!!!! im sad

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ofswordsandpens · 1 year ago

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the fact that the biggest smile we've seen on Percy's face so far is when he's petting that little lizard thing is just so

#the kid is pretty miserable the majority of the time so when he smiles it really stands out #watched that scene like oh that's what happiness looks like on him #actually don't quote me on biggest smile I just cannot remember that kid grinning bigger at a different point in time rn #im like 95% sure #pjo #percy jackson #pjo adaptation #mine

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smile-files · 3 months ago

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even if we each are nothing, i can still feel your hand holding mine... and isn't that worth everything?

#dandy's doodles #inanimate insanity #ii #ii spoilers #ii finale spoilers #ii18 spoilers #i really truly enjoyed the ii finale. it was so moving #at some point i bet i'll elaborate on how much it means to me...#but in the meantime i can say that it made me all the more grateful to be a part of this wonderful community!#i love you osc! thank you for welcoming me with open arms #this was the second major object show finale i saw air in real time (the first was the bfb finale). and both have been so great #i'm so honored to be able to share the experience of watching this finale with all of you lovely people #thank you all so much! and thank you animationepic!#for all of its flaws inanimate insanity is truly a wonderful show that's touched many hearts... including mine <3

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terrimavr · 1 month ago

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Hatchetfield is the best fandom ever because wdym your favourite character is a lawyer that barely has any lines, gets kicked in the balls, kills a man, joins a cult and then disappears from the series entirely, what the hell, sure

#I love how a majority of the fandom hyperfixates on characters with barely any content #I could show more examples but you get the point #gary goldstein attorney at law #gary goldstein #black friday musical #black friday starkid #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #starkid

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rocals · 2 years ago

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CDs are obsolete because the sound quality sucks

yeah sucks me good and hard through my jorts

#okay in actuality?????? vinyl is inaccessible in so so many ways.#cant afford a decnt record player which means that the vinyl i DO own is uhhh soumds worse than #my cds theough the blutooth speaker i have #cds arent 'better' than vinyl but theyre an affordable access point #and wonderful technology #and for the majority of people cd sound is better than spotify or youtubemp3 #they didnt go obselete bc they sucked they went obselete (to the extent they did) bc of digitization #it ALL depends on what speakers you are playing things through #cds are LITERALLY lossless like?????#cd quality is usuallly better than vinyl cd quality is better than anything but flac #bc flac is MODELED ON CDS #ask bosk

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recreationaldivorce · 23 days ago

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it is kind of crazy how often when i get back in touch with a transfem friend i haven't spoken to for a while she has to disclaim to me "btw if you hang out with me [group] will probably be mad at you jsyk". not saying it's unique to transmisogyny but anecdotally this kind of total social exclusion to the point of also excluding anyone who associates with the excluded, seems so frequently targeted at transfems. really dont understand how this kind of behaviour always comes from "progressives"/social justice types, like how can you do this to someone and think youre justified when every single person I know who's been subjected to this has been a transfem communist who has made big personal sacrifices in pursuit of liberation. like im not talking about nazis or right-wingers, even if your dispute with these girls had a legitimate basis the solution would obviously be mediation & talking to them about it bc these are all fundamentally reasonable and good people who are receptive to criticism...

#not that the disputes are justified in the first place given that every single time ive had such a situation explained to me the target #literally didnt do anything wrong. but even if they had done something wrong like... have you tried talking to her first #omg do you remember when redacted fandom sent hate anons to my mutuals telling them to stop associating with me and blocked their own #mutuals who interacted with me. all bc i said the fandom was transmisogynistic. behaviour which definitely did nothing to prove my point...#what a world!#OH also i should add re the original post jsyk the group in question was a group of trans majority-anarchists. before any of yous start #thinking ur above this behaviour bc ur an abolitionist or something. turns out some peoples solution to prisons is to replace them #with exile!

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fox-guardian · 9 months ago

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starting to feel like part of the reason that Sam and Celia's romance thing feels a little off rn is cuz like. what do you mean they're actually dating. he asked her on a date and she said yes. and it's working out so far. it's chill and fine. what do you mean they're not pining for 4 seasons, not communicating, and then getting together only after one of them walked through hell to drag the other out and make sure they know they're loved and wanted. they haven't even patched each other's wounds yet hello. aren't y'all moving a little fast.

#ramblings with major #the magnus protocol #tmagp #ripsam #this isn't a criticism or gripe or anything btw this is a joke im being silly #it just feels so STRANGE for them to be romancing like normal people #like im only just accepting genuinely that celia actually wants to date sam for normal reasons. she's so mysterious and suspicious #but she just! likes spending time with him!! she likies him!! this is normal!!#it feels so WEIRD but its chill! it is also really funny #like yeah Celia's whole Thing is def gonna come up at some point but so far they are just vibing #idk its funnysilly to me #it might also feel weird because romance in general is strange to me. but ive already had that minor aro crisis once #we're not gonna look at that rn

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skywerse · 2 months ago

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currently I'm 42k into the II act of space pirates (part 1 of 3)

soooo as you can tell it'll take some time,,, so here's your little treat—space fnc and pretzeeel

#space pirates au #this is gonna be like the slowest slowburn the fnc ao3 tag has ever seen #yes im 42k in and i just got to the major plot point of the PART i am so cooked man #and im not having a fun time writing this specific part feels like several hydrogen bombs #going off at the same time #jrwi riptide #just roll with it #jrwi #jrwi fanart #gillion tidestrider #jrwi chip #jrwi fnc #jrwi fish and chips #pretzel jrwi

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feelingtheaster99 · 10 months ago

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Riz is much too tired to defend his friends to his mom but him saying “NOOO mom Kristen does CrossFit now” to explain how he’s not carrying Kristen was so fucking funny

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