Hello friends. One thing digging in the mind lately is if there’s anything at all worth building/hosting. It’s ironic since it’s best to never do anything online and go read a book.
Still, it’s pretty amusing to know how to host websites/build websites and yet have nothing to create. Of course, there was a previous attempt a few months ago. You’d figure the lesson would be learned, wouldn’t it? Previously there was a Discourse forum, but that was deleted because having to pay ~$7 each month to keep it alive didn’t seem like the best idea. Yet on reflection, what else shall one do with the money?
Long ago hosting some Mastodon instance was amusing for the first ~3 days, but then shutdown that one too. More “social media” in any form doesn’t seem like the answer, even if funposting would be easier on these twitter-like clones. Is there a way to modify it so it’s amusing? Or does one just accept they’re going to browse around during compilation?
One could argue this is overthinking and that you may as well try hosting it all again. But still, it’s worth framing things in what really matters – the best way to check is whether this leaves you in a “better” position.
Does having a Mastodon instance leave you in a “better” position? Perhaps if it somehow is the seedling toward an empire takeover, but terminally online chubsters aren’t doing such things.
Does making some sort of hostable software leave you in a “better” position? Maybe if it “improve” your skills, though if you’re going to “improve” may as well make an actual product.
The only product that would be amusing enough to make (gritting teeth with B2C again) would be to make a neocities clone. Though what innovations would need to happen to make it more attractive, and would anyone actually pay the “supporter” tier? It seems like the lack of features on neocities is what makes it so great.
Usually if you want create a product it’s best to target other companies. The tar-pit renders itself as individual consumer products. The cobbler walks around barefoot.
When you have to integrate payment processors and legal structures it does suck the fun out a bit more.
The last site “for fun” would be more in-depth analytics for neocities websites; again, the incentives are shaky at best. There’s nothing to prove, and most of programming is gritting through, may as well choose something with a bigger pay off.
Well, maybe it’s worth trying and failing again.