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 @vga256 that’s sad and sweet and horrible at the same time. And it’s pages like this one I miss — though that it still said „tired of being alone“ when she died may show that our pages of old often did not work as people needed. Which may be why social media captures so many more people. 8 comments
@vga256 I fully agree. I much prefer those homepages over social media posts. I just have the feeling that the homepages didn’t quite accomplish the connecting. (I also prefer writing on my own website, though, and it’s a static page with stuff that matters to me, so I’m biased ☺: https://www.draketo.de )  @ArneBab you’re right. it’s interesting that they didn’t. i’ve had plenty of e-mails about my homepages over the years, but none of them resulted in long lasting friendships. there is ONE exception to that - for me at least - blogs. I ended up having a few 15+ year friendships out of the mid 2000s blogging era. i guess those would be considered social media now - but at the time they felt more like homepages :) @vga256 Actually social media also did not lead to long-lasting friendships for me (also not today), but I know it’s different for others. They rather led to me finding interesting people, and friendships started on other platforms I found that way. IRC, email lists and forums did, though. @vga256 gladly! Though bilingual parts are less structured than before. On old websites I had actual parts split by language. Now I mostly have some articles in German, some in English, and I collect the most important ones in sections by language. That means that it is necessary for readers to ignore the parts in languages they don’t understand. Also I have to start creating link-lists of other pages again. Currently all I have is “important articles elsewhere” and lists of links per topic. |
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@ArneBab that's a good point. at the same time i have never seen any social media post quite as intimate as her homepage. i really get the feeling that i'm seeing her for who she is, rather than who she wants to be seen as. that's what i miss about homepages.