SophieFeb 22, 2025

Having your own website is not going to fix democracy, or topple the online pillars of capitalism - but it's making a political statement nonetheless. It says "I want to carve my own space on the web, away from the corporations". I think this is a radical act. It was when I originally said this in 2022, and I mean it even more today.

https://localghost.dev/blog/this-page-is-under-construction/

This page is under construction - localghost

If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.

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Show threadPhilipp LunchFeb 22, 2025

@sophie thanks for this amazing article. 😍

Im currently building my personal Site in WordPress and find it quite challenging to avoid JavaScript. After reading your article I want to try that.

Also im focusing on accessibility and making it accessible for slow internet connections and not focus on only wealthy western web. Its so much fun building it.

Show threadSophie
@philipp my themes are powered by JS. I don't think there's anything wrong with a bit of flavour added by JavaScript but just make sure it's not a requirement to use core features of your site
Feb 23, 2025 at 8:18amWeb
Show threadPhilipp LunchFeb 24, 2025

@sophie thanks for your expertise on that 🙂

Yes I learned about progessive enhancement here in the comment sections and will put my attention on that. So the indie web taught me some stuff for the corporate web as well. Thats nice :)