Hi, I have a lot to say, but I'll keep it as concise as possible. I love and share your overall vision and the cool design zine/collage too! 

I act and create in this direction in my own way, creating rather cryptic prototypes that blend art, symbolism, and gameplay, this doesn't an easy road, but is my artistic need for now. I've also  offered sprites and  recompose music to creators, often in response to AI-generated work. So I think it's pretty close to  your vision, I was even thinking of sharing a discussion thread around this vision, to get people thinking and involved. This kind of approach (zine / book) would be perfect for that, I note that ;) 

Anyway, thanks for sharing ideas. Yes, things can probably be done differently, even in this world, by keeping an open mind, talk, know users, sharing, and collaborating. Good luck with your future projects, take care all!

Not only is the future possible, the future will happen whether we want it or not! Only by being truly in the now are we truly alive! Or something. I've been too depressed to think. 

The design of this page looks like what I imagine a stroke feels like. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I definitely feel about it.

better worlds are possible !!!

Very nice :) I feel like sometimes people misremember the past and are trying to go back to a thing that technically never really existed (like queer y2k stuff) and its like... we can just make it new! right now! together! 

so refreshing! let's do it!

I loved this!!! Hell yeah!!!

love this !! also love how it looks, love the design of the itch page. it never even occurred to me you could make things on the itch page wonky like this. :) this rules.

art is the best it has ever been and it's getting better.

So glad to see this stated in such clear terms.

It's infuriating to see articles and people wax poetic about old forums and geocities as if they weren't hate-filled, data-selling, silicon valley-powered hellholes.

The web is so far past that point already, glitter GIFs are cool but so are decentralization efforts. Don't neglect the politics when engaging with the aesthetics fellas!!!

Hell, yeah!

the spirit of "old internet"—individuals making what they want on the internet, making the web what they want it to be—has never been lost and so it never had to be brought back!

Wow, very cool aesthetic. The skewed elements are bothering me though lol. Our profile pictures have all gone greyscale

Still waiting on a web 3.0. Better yet, no 3.0, just a new web. New ways of navigating that dont feel like an endless content scroll. New ways of making and sharing art. New ways of forming, maintaining, and nurturing healthy communities.

EXTREMELY GOOD.

this gets at something i've been stewing over for a while but hadn't made its way into coherent thoughts yet. thank you for this! also very stylish!

i really needed this...! it's good to see others who feel the same!! let's be difficult and make our future!!!!

I am sick to death of the future being poisoned by nostalgia!

This is a deeply resonating message presented so beautifully, cannot praise it enough

yayy yes exactly !! +1 the visual design is great, very refreshing

yes, thank you! this! this so much! 

we can learn from the old and build on it, but we should never become complacent by yearning for a mythical "better" time that never truly existed! that's the kind of rhetoric that is very susceptible to fascism. 

we can do better than recreate the old, we can build something that has never been before! yayyyyyyy!!!!!!!!

hell yeah this rules

Many people are saying this!! This has such good visual design, even the itch page

cheers to possibility!!

YES... yes, YES!