This is my first blog post. Even though I went through all the trouble of making this blog to go along with my webpage, I'm not exactly sure how often I am going to use it. Despite all the effort I have put into creating Piggy Network, I'm actually not entirely comfortable with sharing any aspect of my life on the internet. I feel that with the rise of social media, the internet has become incredibly corporate and centralized, making the overall web environment so superficial that it feels impossible for me to share anything about my life publicly. But I also feel that even Neocities itself has become centralized to an extent, much like the corporate web. Regardless of whether or not you own a webpage, everyone now knows what Neocities is. Neocities has practically become synonymous with indie web development (hooray!!), but it is also unfortunately synonymous with revisionist nostalgia (yucky!!). Neocities has now become so incredibly popular and widespread that its community is as large and expansive as the likes of Tumblr, which is my absolute least favorite social media platform. It's as if all my least favorite aspects of social media have been integrated into the indie web and has created a centralized community of terminally online, dopamine addicted, nostalgia-mining webmasters obsessed with one another's webpages. And it's this parasocial obsession that comes with the centralized web that has almost made me completely seal off my personal life from the internet. I would have hoped that by investing in the indie web, I would have a decentralized personal space to share aspects of myself I never would on social media, but I guess for now we'll just have to see.