As long as Neocities exists, it will host my project.
It has no crawlers, and no advertisements, so it will also not profit off of my project for data. I pay five dollars monthly so that I can upload videos. To my estimate Neocities hosts nearly 9000 pages. For very little space, a semester worth of conference time, and a lot of debugging, websites like this are incredibly worthwhile.
Right now the vernacular web exists. Sometimes people make websites like this because it's cheaper, but not by a lot. Fundamentally, people code by hand to feel like they’re a part of something. J.R. Carpenter wrote in an essay on the Handmade Web, “I evoke the term 'handmade web' to suggest slowness and smallness as a form of resistance.”

Jeremy Howard founded FastAI. He said that AI generating code is “a way of getting code written without having to write as much code...It is not always correct, but it is just close enough.” Not to mention, AI fabricates information.

Relying on tech companies, which are happy to ignore data security, responsible programming, and climate concerns related to generative AI, is not a sustainable solution.

More people should be more invested in maintenance of online communities. Henry Glassie warned about the fall of vernacular culture, “much of the connection to these forces has been lost in modern society, and this has [led] to ignorance, weakening of culture, and a decline in personal empowerment.” Personal empowerment online is so easy to lose track of. You are constantly reminded how little control you have, and how easy it would be to give up the control you have left. It is easy to lean back. It is easy to get overwhelmed. It is hard to create. But isn’t it worth it?