• Katana314@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I don’t ever see a server like that standing up to popularity.

    In early days, you could maybe get 100 people interested in your site, and that was really cool - it might mean you have to get a second spare computer to load balance. But now, you go beyond 30 people interested, and you’ll have an army of bots scraping the site, people re-hosting anything interesting you made (animations, videos) on YouTube and TikTok so there’s no reason to go to you, and someone deciding to DDOS you for the hell of it.

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      10 months ago

      I’m not interested in traffic. I’m literally a bored old dude who plays with junk. The only purpose for the site is me to play but I post for fun in case anyone stumbles across it. I’m delisted from everything.

      Back in the 1990’s as a teenager I loved my little part of the webrings of personal, pointless sites full of random crap. I’d check in on friends on their personal sites and geocities pages that overused the blink tag and animated gifs. That’s the classic internet that I’m talking about, and I fully embrace it on my little pile of shit. But point taken so link removed just to be safe.

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        10 months ago

        Honestly, i’d love to check out your personal site!

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          10 months ago

          Link I had posted earlier update- obfuscated: www dot snand dot org. This thread is literally the only place I’ve ever posted a link to it :).

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            10 months ago

            Cool site, thanks for linking it. I’ve been wanting to make a personal site for ages, but just no idea what to put on it.

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              10 months ago

              that is possibly the best compliment I’ve been given in ages, it’s just a simple, fun playground and basically my social media replacement (just without the annoying audience :)

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                10 months ago

                I was just going to check it out again to get some inspiration but it looks like it’s blocked?

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                  10 months ago

                  I threw some filtering on it just to be extra safe and wound up blocking everything but the US. Did get a small uptick on bot traffic when I posted a link so might have overdone the security a little.

                  Guessing you are from one of the countries in hat showed up in the filter logs. I’ll do some selective unblocking.

                  EDIT- been selectively unblocking as I see them. I’m extra paranoid but also always learning.

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      10 months ago

      Why do you want the traffic to specifically go to your own server? That’s reasoning backward imo.

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        10 months ago

        Let say you made your own claymation animations. If people go to your own site, they get no ads, and can choose to buy merch from you if they like. However, a common issue for a creator like that would be content thieves with an ad plan. They’d reupload to YouTube, claim it as their own, monetize ads, and maybe the people who see the first animations there don’t even hear about new ones. It’s a bad deal for everyone now (not even YouTube’s fault - it’s the fault of the number of bots, DDOS tools, and click farms on the internet)