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Oversharing in personal sites

Right now there is a rejection of social media, so some people open personal sites (like the ones hosted on Neocities). In combination of the pandemic lockdown, there is a replication of social media usage in personal sites. What do I mean by that? People obsessing over interactions, numbers and mimicking social media's posts. There have been a resurgence of chatrooms to connect with strangers or the visitors can talk with the webmaster.

Without explicitly naming who and what, there have been harassment by anonymous snarkers to a person oversharing. A person should not face public scrutiny for sharing vulnerability. There is almost a golden standard to a personal site. You have to detox of all social media, no Google, no oversharing, no fansites, don't join too many webrings, etc, etc. Here's something to think about: who cares.

You can inform the person that they are perhaps oversharing, but you should not police how a site should be. If all personal sites are the same, it is no longer personal.