Read about the Yesterweb meltdown and I feel like the big takeaway is that a webring of peoples' gardening sites and pages about NES emulation on Neocities may not be incredibly fertile ground to start a revolutionary mass line organization
Every now and then I think back to when the Yesterweb shutdown and it was truly one of the more baffling things I've had to witness
<- was someone who found out about neocities and in general the free-from-corporate internet shit from the Yesterweb
Okay I was gonna leave my post at just the above two paragraphs but I feel like bitching and moaning rn so putting that under the line here
I was decently active on the discord and the forums at the time, and a common sentiment I've seen especially in the aftermath was that everyone thought it was some nice thing to look back fondly on the old internet while doing a cool thing with modern stuff or whatever, just in general embracing the free, creative nature the internet had back then
But then the runners of the place decided that... Turning it into a political statement and movement was gonna be a good idea or something?
Like don't get me wrong I get the idea but most of the people there were kinda just wanting to enjoy the old internet with, as you said, gardening sites, NES emulation, just in general personal spots to have on the internet.
Like I remember reading the forum post about them shutting it down and it just turned into a mess iirc. Kinda remember someone at the top talking about being a kind've guerrilla activist or some shit like that, I genuinely don't remember.
And now on neocities the most recent comments left on the Yesterweb profile are people just kinda shaking their head.
Whatever the end goals were, all I can think is, "If you want to start a revolution, this ain't the way to do it".
