about this

i think most people would go to twitter or similar when they want to gather/interact more with their audience. i don't think it is something inherently bad, nor i believe it is a bad decision, actually that is the meta for current internet: spend all your time posting and replying to people so that you possibly receive some recognition

i can't function like this

i hate ok hate is a strong word but i really do not enjoy unnecessarily talking to people. specially in real time. i take a loooooong time to think on responses. i don't know why but this is not relevant. modern internet maybe even modern society but i dont interact to people enough to know that forces you to take decisions asap, and sometimes punishes people who doesn't follow the current trend

for an artist this is horrible. art takes time and planning, and does not necessarily follows current cultural movements. art is usually a reflection of the artist. and the artist being a human, even if the artist attempts to follow the trends, they will fail in some way or another. either their art is incomplete, hollow and meaningless just check the current situation with short-form content: there is almost no innovation. not until their algorithms change or it is simply irrelevant, either because so many people are chasing the trend and pushing their worthless shit to the top that every new idea is already explored or, when the artist finally has made their unique idea, the trend is already over and they get no recognition.

but this is only half of the problem. the other half is how the content is chosen for the user
artificially curated content rewards repetition, since it assumes that because you liked x, you will like something similar to x, without considering what made x so good in the first place. this combined with a lack of autonomy from the user (since most of what the user consumes is what it is presented to them via the same curator) creates a system where being unoriginal is rewarding

having this neocities page allows me to interact in a way that i don't need to care about trends or pleasing some digital selection device i have no control over. this page allows me to calmly collect my thoughts and explain them using a variety of tools.

tldr: i dont like reddit upvotes so i use neocities instead