# Things I Like

**Published by:** [Ride It to the Sky](https://jared.xyz/)
**Published on:** 2026-03-30
**URL:** https://jared.xyz/things-i-like

## Content

I no longer have a home on the internet. My online identity exists in fragments spread across various platforms, most of which are walled gardens. My home first existed in AOL and my AIM profile. My friends and I loved them and it’s how we’d express who we were online. Then it shifted to MySpace. Then Facebook. Then Tumblr. Then Twitter. Then Instagram. Then my blog. Also LinkedIn. It’s everywhere. I don’t have a single place I can drive people to. It used to be my blog, but that’s just the things I write on occasion. Call me Unc, but I miss the days of curating my tumblr and tending to my AIM profile. I wanted to bring that feeling back so I created my new home on the internet for myself. Over the past week I’ve spent ~10 hours vibecoding Things I Like. It ain't pretty and it's slow, but it does the trick for me and some friends and it's fun. I get my own profile page. I can add all my various online presences across the web to it. I can post the things I like to it. I can categorize them myself or have AI do it and sort them into modules pinned to the top of my things page. I did this to approximate the feeling of an AIM profile where I’d list my favorite sports, friends, bands, etc. I’ve created a place where I can share the things I like - my taste. And where people can get a sense of who I am and see where else I exist across the web. I can also follow other people thinging stuff and see what they like. I can like them, rething them, and bookmark them. What's amazing to me is that in less than a day anyone can rebuild the things they loved about their favorite web applications, especially the ones that got destroyed by algorithms. Maybe I yearn for the days of yore, but I think there’s a way to bring back truly human to human social experiences online and give people places to truly be themselves again. If you want a home on the internet to share the things you like you can try Things I Like.

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