i think i've posted about this before, on bluesky even, but when people talk about how any sort of yesterweb revival is impossible because the world has moved on and home pages won't attract tons of readers i feel like they're missing the point. it's like saying why scrapbook when no one will buy it
Personal sites won't be successful again because they were never successful at all - they weren't made to "succeed", they were made to have your own cool place on this big internet thing.
The idea that we have to reap metrics, validation, "success", for anything to be worth doing has infected us.
