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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

There’s a website tool hosted on neocities that’s attempting to become a geocities revival.

The video is functionally an ad for the community and the associated Web building tools.

Another walled garden, right in line with Web 2.0, but with a 90s pastiche done up in HTML5. Reminds me a bit of the Vaporwave style that flared up in the mid-10s.

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ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Another walled garden

Not sure if you meant it this way, but Walled garden usually means ‘Closed Platform’, like a way to trap users. But the video is encouraging the construction of websites that can easily be self-hosted, which is the opposite of a walled garden.

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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  But the video is encouraging the construction of websites that can easily be self-hosted
  
  It’s claiming they can be self-hosted, certainly. But they’re also claiming this is some kind of “Web Revival”. Do you know anyone who is building neocities sites and self-hosting them, much less getting any meaningful amount of traffic on their self-hosted websites?
  
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  - pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I did til0 I bought my own domain
    
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  - ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    Do you know anyone who is building neocities sites and self-hosting them
    
    My friends aren’t the type to build websites at all, but there’s plenty of self hosted simple web 2.0 sites that get decent traffic, such as Low Tech Magazine (mentioned in the video).
    
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