For the Love of God, Make Your Own Website

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Discussion (20 points, 11 days ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42272369

I hoped this article would show how to code up one's own website in order to overcome the web equivalent of a the same box stores everywhere. Instead it's a bunch whining about freedom and big corps

If you do, don't make it like that [1] though please.

[1] https://imgur.com/iqDL9D7

I did, a little while ago. It's sort of an exercise in Luddism. Been posting things that are personal, political, etc. It's just very simple HMTL, not even any dynamic HTML, so no comments, etc. I just started doing it and have kept it up for a bit. It's at https://www.vin-dit.org/

how about friends getting a domain and each gets a subdomain there and does their thing? more fun maybe in a tiny group and they can help each other. fwiw

I think it is just a question of community. Sure, you can make your own website, but people will (most likely) not read it. So what is the point? Some do it for the love of writing, but that is a niche at best.

On social media, you just comment on someone's post and (if spicy enough take) the comments will come.

Directly from the article:

> Unfortunately, this is what all of the internet is right now: social media, owned by large corporations that make changes to them to limit or suppress your speech, in order to make themselves more attractive to advertisers or just pursue their owners’ ends.

Yeah, if that -- the semi-fake "interaction" of algorithm-mediated "likes" and comment flamewars (or endless streams of vapid cat pictures) -- is what you're after, fine.

This article was about another Web (like all of it used to be), when that's not what you want. There is a difference.

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