Yes to all of this. I recently gave up the php wrangling of Wordpress, and just built a new site using Squarespace. It was so fancy, so easy.
At the same time, though, I spun up a zine project that is neither fancy nor easy and it's been a series of wonderful sunrise moments to be crafting, writing, and sharing something that I care about with friends. And the content will never be online. (Sign up! crappyzineclub.com.)
Julie / @j / juliette.co
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 7:51 AM Karen Cravens silver@phoenyx.net wrote:
On 9/17/19 12:21 AM, Paul Kruczynski wrote:
But related, tangentially, I've also been somewhat surprised how a lot of the people I know who were early adopters seem uninterested in such things anymore. Not just in making new, weird, questionably sustainable communities for your friends, but also privacy, controlling their own data, all that fun stuff.
Not really surprising, alas. It *is* exhausting, and there's always the temptation to just give in and use the fancy easy stuff.