I am on a journey to detox from the modern net, because it doesn't make me happy. I haven't ever really been a social media person. As someone who never got into it, it just seems absurd. However, I have plenty of apps where you can scroll, and scroll, and scroll.
Some of these apps could be considered social media, like a Lemmy and Youtube client, or straight up social media apps like Facebook that I only use for second-hand trading.
I hate that even just those apps are enough to never make me bored.
Of course I don't want to be bored, but I recognize how much more motivated and inspired I am after I let myself be bored. I am slowly adjusting my mindset and surroundings to allow me to get bored more often. When travelling by bus, I try to do a double take on if I actually want to listen to anything, or if it's just my instincts telling my to remove the silence.
So let's get to why this site isn't interactable. Interactable sites, like blogs with comment sections, social media, anything where you can leave your mark — are fun. Sites that are just static, with no way to interact with or to make a mark are boring.
However, boring things are easy to put down. There isnt anything for you to do here except read my posts and perhaps sending me an email. No one will know that you have done so except for me, and to reiterate — I don't have any analytics here, so I won't know if you decide to not send a mail either.
You know that feeling of being alone in a place where it's usually bustling? Like waiting for a ride late at school after everyone else has left or coming in first to work. Walking slowly through empty halls, and it's just silent.
We are always tracked. We have known for atleast a decade, but now it's even more overarching. What used to be just aggregating access logs to see how long users stayed on a page until they left has turned into cursor tracking, estimating the users mood and building a profile based on every move.
For example if you stop scrolling in facebook, they will log that you are engaging with the post on your screen. They log which post was the last one before you left, and the algorithm adjusts. Simply stopping to drink something will noticeably adjust your algorithm, and I hate it.
On this page however, nothing you do is saved. I don't know how long you stay on each page, I don't know how much you read nor which links you hover. I don't even have access to logs due to my hosting solution, you are free to explore with no one knowing you were ever here.
Take a moment to stroll through these halls, you aren't in a rush.