I HAVE DONE IT! I HAVE MADE A BLOG!
Is it the best blog ever? No. But is it technically a functional blog? Yeah.
I love being able to blog - I've been blogging since 2015, so I guess you could say I have 10 years of experience XD
Now I can use this blog to vent about various events and situations. Also, share cool news with all of you.
But why write a blog in html, when there are other no-code blogging platforms you could use instead? Or why not - le gasp - just use normal social media?
I believe that with everything being increasingly digitized, it's easy to lose a grip on reality and the day-to-day work involved in everything, including making our own websites. I've really enjoyed checking out more of the indie web here on Nekoweb and Neocities, and I want to keep embracing that.
Also, having this personal website is probably more stable than most social media these days. Twitter/X is a mess. Tumblr is gradually getting worse. Instagram isn't what it used to be, etc.
Social media, like most mobile games and games that are exclusively digital purchases (looking at you, Digital-only Nintendo Switch Games), are live service media. Once the team behind it shuts it down, there's no way of preserving these media easily if at all.
Also, in the worst-case scenario if Nekoweb were to shut down, I could just redownload all these website files + save them to put up elsewhere. ^^; Not that I want that to happen, but still.