To me, having my own website, even one I run as a business with my friends, gives me a degree of freedom over my own work that I’ve never had before. If you look at my work on Kotaku, there’s so many garbage ads on the screen you can barely see the words. Waypoint and Motherboard are both being run like a haunted ship, pumping out junk so that Vice’s new owners can put ads on it. I don’t have to worry about that anymore—I don’t have to worry about my work being taken down or modified or sold, or put in an AI training set against my will. I have my own website, and it is mine, and I get to own it completely. I hope someday soon I can visit your website.
Source: For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website – Aftermath by Gita Jackson
Although I agree with the sentiment about a domain of one’s own, I cannot help feel that my site is like one of those country bakery’s that used to thrive when the highway ran through town until a bypass around town changed that?
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@mrkrndvs Right, but then people in the know are still doing detours for the good stuff 🙂