✨ feat: Manifesto
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<p>
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Absolutely everything on this site was coded by me and always will be, with only three exceptions - hit counter,
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because NeoCities doesn't allow PHP and doing a JS only counter is a little more complicated (but will be done
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because Neocities doesn't allow PHP and doing a JS only counter is a little more complicated (but will be done
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eventually); the cursor trail script, because I don't have the brain for that sort of thing lol; and the cbox.
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<h2 class="Title--sizeH3 u-textCenter">The Small Web Manifesto</h2>
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<p>
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I grew up with the internet.
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<p>
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I was born in 1997. The internet was flourishing by then, but it was still the wild west of technology. It was a
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place of wonder, of creativity, a place you visited rather than lived in. Growing up in the 2000s meant growing up
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with the internet. I was slightly too young and sheltered to have my own Geocities page, but it was sites like that,
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that I grew up with.
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<p>
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In the 3rd grade, at my school's Scholastic Book Fair, I came across a copy of Petz 5. I begged and begged my
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parents to buy it, and they did! This simple game, centered around raising virtual dogz and catz, is an intregal
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part of who I am today.
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I don't remember how I discovered Petz fansites, but once I did, I was hooked. I spent hours downloading custom
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breeds, clothes, and toys, and learning what the various game files did. I convinced my mom to make me an email
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address so I could adopt petz from the people who ran these sites. I learned the sad truth that just because a site
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is online, doesn't mean that it's active, and the cute puppies I requested were never arriving to my inbox.
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</p>
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<p>
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Computer game files were much more hackable back then, and I credit Petz for showing me that computers weren't
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magic, they were created by a hundred little parts working together, and that by changing one part you could
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customize your experience. Computers could be moulded to fit whatever I desired them to do.
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</p>
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However, it was websites that really caught my fancy.
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I have always been an artist. Most people don't think of web design as art anymore, because most people only
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interact with the internet through sanitized social media and clickbait article sites that all look more or less the
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same. But websites used to be personal, they used to be unique, they used to be about self-expression. People made
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websites to share something they created with the world.
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<p class="u-rainbowifyChildren">
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The world wide web is only 33 years old, and yet most people have already forgotten what it was invented for. At its
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heart, the internet is about <i>connection</i> and <i>expression.</i> Anybody from anywhere in the world can talk to
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someone anywhere else in the world, provided they have an internet connection and a device to access it through. You
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can share whatever you want, however you want.
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</p>
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<p>
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This is something social media has tried to take away from us. Remember the days when you could customize your
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MySpace profile? Or put as many blinkies on your Geocities as your heart desired? Twitter doesn't even let you set a
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profile color anymore. Instagram will delete your photo if you happen to show a little too much skin. Neither will
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let you show your feed in chronological order or only show posts from people you follow.
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</p>
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<p class="u-rainbowifyChildren">
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These corporations have made <i>you</i> the product. Products don't get to chose how they're displayed or who uses
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them. So is it any wonder that social media doesn't let you change the background or font color on your profile? Let
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alone how your data gets used or even what's collected at all!
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</p>
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<p>
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So how do we fight back?
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<p class="u-rainbowifyChildren">
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Delete your social media. I'm serious. These sites may pretend their money comes from ads, but without their actual
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product, the users, ad companies won't pay to show ads on these sites anymore. Ad companies buy ads on social media
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because social media has put all of their users into highly specific ad profiles. Ad companies pay to target exactly
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who is likely to use their product, or has already done so, and nobody else. Without users to fill ad profiles with,
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ad companies won't buy ads.
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</p>
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<p>
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Besides, do you really care what your best friend's aunt's sister eats for breakfast every day of the week?
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</p>
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<p>
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I say this with the caveat that this isn't always possible, especially if you make money from social media. As much
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as I hate what Musk has done with Twitter, it's the only social media left I'm allowed to be a sex worker on, and in
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2023 social media is unfortunately part of the job. So I can't delete it.
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</p>
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<p class="u-rainbowifyChildren">
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Make your own site. <a class="Link" href="https://neocities.org" target="_blank">Neocities</a> is a wonderful place
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to do so - it combines personal sites with a social media-esque following system, all while being open-source and
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ad-free. Fill the web with personal shrines to self-expression again.
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</p>
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<p class="u-rainbowifyChildren">
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The web is yours. It always has been. Let's remind corporations that this wild west belongs to the <i>people</i>,
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not a bottom line.
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</p>
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<p>
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Stand up for self-expression. Stand up for freedom.
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</p>
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<p>
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Take back the web.
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</p>
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<hr>
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<ul class="List">
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<li class="List-item">
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<a href="https://sadgrl.online/cyberspace/internet-manifesto.html" target="_blank" class="Link">The internet has
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changed</a>
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<li class="List-item">
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<a href="https://yesterweb.org/" target="_blank" class="Link">Yesterweb</a>
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<li class="List-item">
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<a href="https://auzziejay.com/manifesto/" target="_blank" class="Link">Auzzie Jay's Manifesto</a>
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<li class="List-item">
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<a href="https://lu.tiny-universes.net/indiewebmanifesto.html" target="_blank" class="Link">The Indie Web
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Manifesto</a>
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<li class="List-item">
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<a href="https://flamedfury.com/manifesto/" target="_blank" class="Link">My Web Manifesto : fLaMEdFury</a>
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<li class="List-item">
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<a href="https://ajknox.neocities.org/writing/nonfic/whyneocities.html" target="_blank" class="Link">Why
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Neocities?</a>
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</li>
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</ul>
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