[a fool in paradise]

>>You have to post constantly,” Van Baarle, who got her start in the early aughts on DeviantArt, explained. “Otherwise, the algorithm decides you’re not interesting, and will not show your posts to your followers.”

These tech overlords demand new content every minute.

over 400 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute

[sparklite2]

I was on, I think, State street in Geocities.  It had a classy feeling to it.  And people actually stopped by. One of my creations, designed as a theater facade that opened into various original articles, was featured by Rush Limbaugh as Site of the Month for May of that year.  I even got paid for a piece to get published in Laissea-Faire City Times.  A hundred bucks!  Those were the days.

Sadly, better writing today has gone from scattered islands to knotted shards.

Collaborative Art must have been fun for artists.  For wordsmiths, I had a lot of fun with collaborative writing with Cathy Crawford, a student at a Texas college whom I never got the chance to meet face to face.  We would take turns adding to a fictional story until it closed of its own volition.  Cathy was good, and the stories were too.

[bert]

For a while, there was BoardWatch.

A source of BBS info and most importantly, truth

[thoughtomator]

Actual reason: the rise of the Communist Left beat the living spirit out of all creative arts, leaving a landscape where any who dared to maintain it in the face of totalitarian political correctness are censored and banished.