frostywoofs.net
new website format
august 4, 2023
i logged into here today, originally just to add bluesky to my links page, but then i had a "5 minute coding adventure" and decided to restructure this so i can add a new post whenever i'd like to.
to be honest, i think i've reached a certain state of exhaustion and exasperation with the wider social internet and its structure.
maybe it's worsened slightly by the social circles i'm a part of, but i hate having to perform a positive outward image of myself on social media.
well - okay, maybe I don't NEED to do that. but i feel like i'm really dragging down the vibe if i clutter a twitter (or mastodon or bluesky) timeline with my ramblings. i feel like it's gonna lower the mood of someone who's looking at it.
i also feel frustrated when i'm not able to adequately express myself given the format of the website. ironically, this whole post is something i wanted to post about elsewhere, but all the platforms that are popular with furries limit to ~300 chars.
it's really hard to say if it's just me nostalgia bombing. but I really feel like we lost something with the development of the modern internet. i know it's easy to make corporations a scapegoat and complain about the way they've taken control of the internet, but... seriously! wtf happened?
i miss having my own forum accounts, my own homepage, my own expression. i miss internet anonymity, and having an identity that can't easily be traced back in 0.1 seconds to my job. i miss browsing the internet and creating things literally 100% for fun, and not trying to turn it into something marketable or for future job opportunities.
i need something, yknow?
i figure, why not just go back to making a blog? people who are actually genuinely interested can pop in and see what i've written, and people who aren't really interested? that's genuinely fine.
i guess there's way more freedom when you have your own homepage. like, if i want to suddenly switch to
hot pink comic sans or embed a picture
of a hot dog 
mid sentence, nobody is
really gonna stop me (or care) i guess. so yeah, suck it, zuckerberg. i posted a hot
dog. whatcha gonna do, SUE ME?????????
no promises that i keep up with any of this tho. decent probability i just never end up updating.
but that's also kind of also the point here. i don't want expectation.
thx for stopping to say hello. very 😎 cool of u thanks