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.