Hello World!
A first post introducing this personal site and why having your own corner of the web still matters.
Hello, world! This is a first post to see if this system is working. And I think it is indeed working :)
While I’m at it: why this site?
Because I just want to have one, and I think it’s cool to have my own site :) It might be “cringe” in times where all the cool kids are on social media, but on a personal site, there is much more freedom.
I have the freedom to create any content, page, or layout. Some cool examples of this are:
I’m excited to see where this goes and already had a lot of fun building it :)
Turns out I’m not alone in thinking this way. There’s a whole lot of ideas around the “Small Web”. Personal sites connected as a decentralized network “web” rather than tenants in Big Tech’s apartment complex. Maybe that’s what makes this fun: it feels like the internet was supposed to be.
Pointers: The Small Web, The Read-Write Web, A Social Network of self owned sites
Long live the indie web!