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 threadhikewithrichardFeb 22, 2025
@sophie My personal website has been around since around the summer of 1996. It started as a word document that became an HTML page, and then grew.
Show threadThe Witch of Crow BriarMar 9, 2025
@harmonicarichard @sophie Yeah, my immediate reaction to “It was… in 2022” was “it was in 1996 when we were already doing this”. Then we got told we should be blogging instead, then came Twitter, and Facebook, and…, and…
Show threadSophie
@crowbriarhexe @harmonicarichard I meant "it was true in 2022" as in that was when I gave the talk this post was based on
Mar 22, 2025 at 5:56pmWeb