For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website

Unfortunately, this is what all of the internet is right now: social media, owned by large corporations that make changes to them to limit or suppress your speech, in order to make themselves more attractive to advertisers or just pursue their owners’ ends. Even the best Twitter alternatives, like Bluesky, aren’t immune to any of this—the more you centralize onto one single website, the more power that website has over you and what you post there. More than just moving to another website, we need more websites.

There’s a bit of a theme in the links I’m posting today, and it’s all about being on the web and owning your site and getting away from any platform. In my adult life we’ve spun through so many different platforms, they’re all listed in this article, and yet people who’ve lived through this all seem to forget when the new hot platform comes along.