Hello World
By Nymvaline
Hello! I’m Nymvaline, I’m a real person, and this is my corner of the internet.
A few months ago, Reddit decided that it was going to suddenly change its API terms and pricing, and since I was using Apollo, I wasn’t going to be able to use Reddit the way I wanted to any more. That was all right. I was probably already spending too much time there, and so I mostly stopped.
(It’s still the best result for several searches, especially with the way “AI” is being integrated into most of the search engines, so I’m not off of it completely, but I don’t scroll through front page or subreddits any more.)
This, and the degradation of Twitter, made me realize that enshittification was something I needed to guard against. Because I’d made a couple of things that I put out into the world on Reddit, and I realized that I can’t trust that they’ll stay. And hey, I’m an adult now! I have enough money to buy a domain name for myself, maybe start up a little blog, shout into the void. Like the good old days, except this time I can actually afford the small amount of money needed to participate.
So, with the help of the resources on the Indieweb wiki, I managed to cobble this together. Currently I’m using Hugo and GitLab Pages. Maybe I’ll figure out how to adult well enough to actually pay for a server, but for now, here I am.
Welcome to my corner of the internet.