“They are selling you a solution to a problem they created. They want you to feel insecure. If you feel insecure, you pay the subscription.”

“You are not bad. You are a jazz musician in a world trying to sell ringtones.”

here’s a collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be fun."

(It still is, but it used to be, too)

all the signs are pointing to the fact that we might be in endgame for “open” as we’ve known it on the Internet over the last few decades

See also:

• Prepping for the endgame of the open web
• Some Thoughts on the Open Web

[…] the path back to feeling like you have some control is to un-spin yourself from the Five Apps of the Apocalypse and reclaim the Internet as a set of tools you use to build something you can own & be proud of