The enshittificiation and big tech takeover of everything we use or touch is insanity. You don't have to give up your privacy/data/money for things you don't need/never wanted/hate. There was a time when all the web was just like this. People just sharing information on topics that interested them. People wanting to share information about their quilting club, favorite band, place they had visited, video game they liked, instrument they played. It wasn't 24x7x365 in-your-face ads, tracking, "conform to our rules and limitations or else".
I was a Geocities kid, and proud of it. Now I'm a Neocities adult. I don't need AI to tell me what to type, or think - I can do that for myself.
I have no idea what this little micro-corner of the chaos will turn into, but I'm willing to find out.