No matter where you go, there here you are.

We reject the modern web. Not the technology behind it, but the ideology of the corporations that control it. The one that says every website must be an app. That every interaction must be tracked. That every click must be optimized for engagement. That every design decision must be A/B tested into boring white and grey submission.

We remember a different web. One built by people, for other people. One where a website could have personality. Where under construction gifs would foretell either coming attractions or ambitions abandoned, and the mystery of that was part of the fun. Garish colors? Yes. An overabundance of animated gifs? Absolutely. Horrible midi music? You bet. But also webrings of like-minded individuals, a healthy dose of quirk, a diverse range of interests, and, most importantly, human curation.

We believe:

• No AI Content. All of our dumb thoughts and bad photo edits belong to us and us alone. We don't need a LLM to hallucinate for us, we're perfectly capable of generating our own nonsense.
• No "engagement". We don't care how long you stay on the site. We don't care how many, or which pages you visit. We don't care if you like our content. If you read what we wrote and liked it, cool. Share it if you want. If you didn't like it, close the tab and move on with your life.
• No endless scrolling. Content should be paginated. Your thumb deserves a rest. Your brain deserves a stopping point. The feed is a treadmill. We prefer a walk in the woods.
• Forsake optimization to the point of sterility. Not everything needs to convert. Not everything needs to retain. Sometimes a website can just be. Weird? Personal? Inefficient? Human? Yes, please.
• No corporate infrastructure. No AWS. No Google Cloud. No Cloudflare. A server in a room, running software we control. If it goes down, we fix it. The cloud is just someone else's computer, and we know better than to trust them with our data.
• No corporate code. No React. No frameworks maintained by companies who want to own the web. Open source backed with as much simplicity as we can manage.
• No tracking. No analytics. No pixels. No fingerprinting. We don't know who you are and we don't care. Visit counter goes up for a lark. That's enough.
• No ads. Ever. This costs us money to run. We don't care. The moment you see a banner, the dream is dead.
• No algorithms. Content is shown in the order it was created. Chronological. Predictable. Boring. Honest.