After so many months using Hugo I got to say, I love it, it’s been fun and I have learned a lot BUT… yes. BUT. It’s not as easy to use as it was “promised” or at least how easy I thought it was gonna be. Themes are just OK, most of them are very basic and with incomplete or broken features. A big chunk of them are ports from basic themes from other site builders. Everything has had to be tweaked and customized in most themes I’ve used so far so that they function semi decently but I’m still far from being an expert in web dev and HUGO to really feel as free as I want to. I wish more dedicated designers and developers joined the community so we could get a “just blog and it does most for you” experience.

Every couple of months I get this impulse and desire to add ActivityPub functionality to at least this microblog but every time I start researching on the appropriate procedures I just get a headache because of how complicated it gets to do it on a “serverless” static website. I wish someone finds a way to make this more accesible. I love some of the sites I’ve seen that have it enabled and the promise of updating the site with an app like Indigenous sounds really attractive. For now I have the notion that a lot of ActivityPub functionalities are hostile to sites not running on a proper server. Change my mind.

Games have to be fair in order for them to be games. Cross play changes games in an unfair and uncompetitive way. When some of the players have software systems to compensate for their lack of input accuracy this gives special treatment to them. I don’t support cross play in competitive aim based shooters. It turns eSports into accesible entertainment on the expense of a big part of the player population.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the internet. I’ve spent most of my life in it but sometimes, almost always lately, I wish we would come back to the pre social networks era. These services are so frictionless that it makes most people say stupid shit and fight without any pre cognition of their permanently on the record declarations. The requirement of deploying your own website was a good entry barrier and we still had a lot of dumb, fun, crazy sites. It just wasn’t a privilege accessible to most.