I‘m moving to the indie web and you should too
I have been thinking about it for a long time. Today is the day - I am joining the indie web. Now, there‘s a lot to unpack in that simple sentence. Broadly speaking, the Personal Web Initiative aims to revive the web landscape of the early 2000s - where personal websites abounded. From the weird to the original. From the heartfelt to the hilarious, all are welcome. The goal is to give digital spaces back to their users. This movement has been building for many years (more than ten years in fact). So, today, I‘m doing the jump. I will do my best to explain why. Feeling entangled It is no secret that the Internet has seen unparalleled growth in a very short amount of time. Growth leads to opportunity, an opportunity that was quickly seized by big players. Now, there is nothing inherently wrong with Meta or Google, after all, the products they offer are of extraordinary quality (I always had the utmost respect for Google Maps). But big players lead to definitive structure and, most ...
