would love to make/find a list of websites that don't take venture capital, since it's like the number one indicator of "will this space be remotely usable in another five years"

would love to make/find a list of websites that don't take venture capital, since it's like the number one indicator of "will this space be remotely usable in another five years"
totally. the only social media sites i'm aware of are this and pillowfort; would be interested to know of similar things.
(well, i guess you could count some of the conservative ones re: venture capital, but my understanding is more that they want it and can't get it 🙈)
What about Dreamwidth and Mastodon? (I use neither; my impression as an outsider is they're not VC backed.)
also neocities which is more robust under the hood than it looks (it has a page update feed, for example) though it's definitely still a different kind of thing
forgot about dreamwidth! there’s mastodon, yeah. i’d been thinking of it in a different category due to it being a fediverse thing. but you’re right that it also doesn’t have that.
Just realized the most famous Mastodon instance is Truth Social, and they did take VC.