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This capsule officially began sept 2021. SDF was the original host until may 2022 at which point the capsule transfered to tilde.team. It began as my first introduction into having a personal site. Before this capsule, I had never had a net space of my own. I always liked writing personal stuff in journals, and once I quit social media I began to desire a space to express myself. Once I discovered gemini, the small net community, and the tildeverse/pubnix community I felt I had found a place to build something which could be seen.
In the future, it might run on my own hardware or VPS. Im not sure if I want to commit to that kind of upkeep when a pubnix provides me with what I need. But at the same time having my own domain and site to go with it does appeal to me. I will append this section if that happens, obviously.
But my interactions with gemini began in late july-early august 2021. At the time alt-protocols were still a new thing to me and I liked them immediately. They feel new and exciting to me, like the net 2.0 done right. Everyone here understands the folly of what the web has become, and together we each contribute a piece of ourselves to recreate a new net in our collective image. You will meet people from all walks of life on the small net (though admittedly theres a noticable skew towards the IT techie tinkerer/developer types).
I am interested in using decentralized and open source technologies as a privacy idealist. I don't like the idea of contributing to the systems which seek to control thought and invade our lives through ceaseless survailance. I also remember the days when the internet was still a wild frontier for discovering people and the things they made. People made web pages because they wanted to make a mark, and have that mark be seen. A personal site should be a place of passion, not profit.
But today the web is no longer a place to be seen by human beings. Its a place to get instant information and be sold things by algorithms that track your every move. Theres nothing wrong with wanting quick and instant answers or buying things online. But it does become a problem when a vast majority of the internet is built on technologies with the underlying goal of trying to ad revenue off you and sell your information to the highest bidder. The few web comminities and personal sites that fall under the small nets ideals are few and far between.