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Let's take a look at @riotgoools room: It's a beautiful, neat, and stylish place, created with a love for detail! But... why is it so small? Why can't I see a door to go outside? Why am I controlling @riotgoools avatar instead of visiting her in her room as myself? Some items are non-interactive, I can't put on a jacket or move things around. Where's the food? Can we order a pizza? Everything I wrote above is the limit of virtual reality. We accept them as conventions, but sometimes we often forget where we are and who we are - creatures of the real world. The deeper you penetrate virtual reality, the more often you will bump into walls without doors. A seemingly huge network is actually smaller than you think. It's just that tech mages have learned to create effects and play with our senses. But make no mistake, this is just an imitation, an illusion, a mirage, a deception, an artificial environment. Or is there more to it than that? xD

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thx for the room review! ^-^ it's an ongoing wip so things aren't interactive until i make them work (๑>ᴗ<๑) (on the first day, the only thing active was the homepod) i'm interested in how ppl think about personal homepages these days. is there an expectation for everything online to be for an external audience first now? i feel like the exhibitionism of social media has conditioned this expectation in us. or can one still take a little plot of web space and make it something personal but also allows visitors to peek in? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i'd like to think the latter is still possible. and i hope that by building my homepage as a reflection of myself, it encourages/inspires others to build highly personalized, imperfect pages about themselves again to break out of the monocultural, prefabbed online existences the platforms force us into maybe if everyone had a small plot of internet to truly call their own and take care of, the network would be a more beautiful and healthier place to be (◕‿◕)♡

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Oh, it was supposed to look like a criticism at first glance, but it's not really a criticism. With your “room review” you confused me when you started defending something you cared about xD I used your space in the context of thoughts to get the idea across and to emphasize how hard what you do is, step by step overcoming seemingly insurmountable network limitations. You said it right, for something to be interactive on the internet - someone has to create it Do you really believe you can do it all? x_X "What do people think about personal pages" If we talk about yours, I guess my main thought is this: How much knowledge do you need in different fields to create something like this? Your worldview and path is new to me, so I am interested to show you something close to me and see how you take it. =_= But there's a problem, I don't know how to build rooms =|

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i didn't take it as criticism at all! usually when ppl write thoughtful casts to me or in the channel, i try to reply back with as much effort. so i took the opportunity to ramble some thoughts about websites with your points in mind ^-^ i can't do it all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ my websites are basically me doing what i can do, which may be more or less than others i suppose i have a somewhat unique knowledge/skill base. i've been making websites my since i was little. but i'm not suggesting everyone build a website that looks like mine. in fact, it would be boring if all sites took that format. that gets us back to everything looking the same i think the beautiful thing about personal homepages is that the form reflects the creator – their skills and their limitations. it could be a simple text page but u make the decisions for the styling – the fonts, the colors, the layout. and that's what makes them more interesting to look at than scrolling a feed where everyone looks interchangeable

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I once had my own forum and made a style for it. I asked what they thought of it and was told it was from the 2000's and needed to be changed. I have to admit, it was really bad) After that I started to learn and look at other styles, and began to realize that you can not just do all the pictures because it will be a big load. I also had a cat plugin that would pop up when a user entered the forum and meow. I had to give up on it too, because such things annoy the mass audience. The style was dark, but many people said that they wanted a light style and dark is not fashionable now. In the end I got a regular gray forum in neutral tones, more or less modern. But nobody really wanted it either, so I gave up decentralization and moved to Web 3 social networks =)

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i think that's the difference i was talking about between building for personal and building for the masses (⌒_⌒;) for personal sites, u build for your own preference so u can entertain all the weird and fun ideas u like and not worry about satisfying everyone. so u can go wild with cat sounds etc for a general userbase, like forums/social networks, u do need to balance usability and accessibility for all cases beyond your own prefs. even if it's impossible to accommodate everyone, the attempt must be made. we see that ongoing here on wc with the team constantly trying to find the balance, making some ppl mad and some ppl happy along the way and reconfiguring i think there should be both on the internet. the trouble is when it leans too heavily to one or the other. one is totally open but comes at the higher cost of skill and limits entry. the other is convenient and has lower bar for entry but also makes everything the same/bland ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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