I feel contractually obliged to link to a post like Bring back personal blogging Chris Coy
January 5, 2023
The biggest reason personal blogs need to make a comeback is a simple one: we should all be in control of our own platforms.
If what is happening on Twitter hasn’t demonstrated it, our relationship with these social media platforms is tenuous at best. The thing we are using to build our popularity today could very well be destroyed and disappear from the internet tomorrow, and then what?
You know what the one big valid criticism is of all this “write on your own site, not on walled social media sites” is? It’s boring. It’s not very social feeling. You’re “talking into the void,” as someone recently put it to me.
But IndieWeb never said “don’t participate in social media.” In fact, it’s the opposite. They say participate everywhere you want to, just make your own site the canonical hub.
As for me, I really need to learn more about ActivityPub and Web Mentions. I’ve got the WordPress plugin installed and activated/set up on this site, I just don’t really get it yet. What I’d like is that conversation about anything I post here gets consolidated into essentially the comments section beneath each post. And that if I comment-via-blogging about someone else’s posts, it makes its way there. That feels like it could really up the fun-level.
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