Hello, hope you're having a good day.

This is my place to exist online. Away from the algorithms, in a place where everyone is here to express themselves, be damned if there's an audience. I think this has been a long time coming.

The seed that's finally sprouted into producing this webpage started about a year-and-a-half ago. "Everything Is Sludge: Art in the Post-Human Era" was my first subtle nudge and reminder that the way I was using the internet wasn't right. I was a Redditor, so replace the TikTok Subway Surfers videos for endless cat Subreddits or r/Formula1 posts that didn't really add anything of value. Twitter was a similar story of endless scrolling, and little to no net benefit. Arguably the worst was YouTube, where I'd desperately hunt for noise in lieu of thoughts. After watching the video, I uninstalled the apps, and attempted to relagate them to an occasional peek on safari. This worked for Reddit, where I still haven't used for more than the occasional question, but the other two still have reasonably good mobile browser experiences and keep pulling me back.

More recently, the videos that I suppose gave me the final spur forward were "The Importance of Real Things" and "Death of the Follower & the Future of Creativity on the Web" that reminded me how strange it was that anything and everything I made was effectively stranded on someone else's server, being promoted by a mysterious algorithm responsible for so many trends I hate. I use Google Docs for everything, the day Spotify goes down is the day that I forget 1900 songs, my videos are so throwaway that I don't have copies of most of them anymore, all my closest friendships are reliant on Discord keeping their lights on, and my Tweets and Reddit posts, no matter how minor and insignificant, aren't kept close to me. There's a fine line between hoarding and preservation. I do think tweets should be throwaway, I don't think every comment needs to be kept and saved.

Let's not get conflated with me hating every single large service. There's a reason they thrive, there's a reason we all still use them. I'm not going to stop. But I want a place of my own. Where all my pages are backed up on my own harddrive, where I'm not trying to hold my position in a rushing rapids of the algorithm. And somewhere that's hands on, freeform, experimental, and permenant.