On YouTube. Sigh.
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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Certainly ironic, given the context.
But how else are you going to reach the normies?
How about a tl;dw for people who can read?
There's a website tool hosted on neocities that's attempting to become a geocities revival.
The video is functionally an ad for the community and the associated Web building tools.
Another walled garden, right in line with Web 2.0, but with a 90s pastiche done up in HTML5. Reminds me a bit of the Vaporwave style that flared up in the mid-10s. Cute, but not groundbreaking.
Another walled garden
Not sure if you meant it this way, but Walled garden usually means 'Closed Platform', like a way to trap users. But the video is encouraging the construction of websites that can easily be self-hosted, which is the opposite of a walled garden.
But the video is encouraging the construction of websites that can easily be self-hosted
It's claiming they can be self-hosted, certainly. But they're also claiming this is some kind of "Web Revival". Do you know anyone who is building neocities sites and self-hosting them, much less getting any meaningful amount of traffic on their self-hosted websites?
Do you know anyone who is building neocities sites and self-hosting them
My friends aren't the type to build websites at all, but there's plenty of self hosted simple web 2.0 sites that get decent traffic, such as Low Tech Magazine (mentioned in the video).
I did till I bought my own domain
This is the videos community. Are you lost?
Yeah as much as I prefer reading about things like this it is a bit silly to complain about it when it's literally posted in a video-oriented community.
Great discussion
Theres a number of websites that he goes through. Its going to be hard to describe.
Lots of neocities but not all of the links are.
Its worth watching.
Digg does that..
https://tildeverse.org/ is another community worthwhile
Oh yeah thats an awesome one!
Also IRC still exists and is still popular for chat. Its the fediverse before that term was a thing
this post is copied from digg 2.0(shame that never really took off) by @garyonline:
I really like Ye Olde Blogroll for finding indie blogs (blogroll.org)
Cloudhiker.net and Kagi's Small Web (kagi.com/smallweb) are two really cool Stumbleupon clones.
Micro.blog and bearblog.dev both have great communities too, if you're into blogging.