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/
Just remember, Dot com, net, org, info, us, and edu are domain extensions governed by the United States. Dot Social, for example, like many word-based domain extensions, are managed by corporations in the United States.
You can host your dot com, for example, in Germany, and while your site files would be safe, technically they could pull your domain name.
Admittedly, that's rare, but we are dealing with a Government Regime that is threatening their own allies. What is normal anymore!?
The safe bet when starting a new website would be to pick a country level domain.
Sophie
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