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I see the personal website as being an antidote to the corporate, centralised web. Yeah, sure, it’s probably hosted on someone else’s computer – but it’s a piece of the web that belongs to you. If your host goes down, you can just move it somewhere else, because it’s just HTML. Sure, it’s 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.

The personal site isn’t dead. It’s just been forgotten in the commercialised, capitalist web of today. We owe it to ourselves to rediscover this lost art. We can still be creators for the sake of creating. We can still post content without someone else making money from it. So, once again my digital call to arms: build your own website. Make it fun. Make it pointless. But most importantly: make it yours.