I read a blog post from Virtual Moose about how we should consider making 2026 The Year of the Personal Website.Like he says, it’s nice having a place of my very own to put down thoughts on things I enjoy without worrying about the 288 character limitation of the Social Media site formerly known as Twitter, or even the more generous limits on Mastodon. It’s nice to not need to engage in the dystopian self-censorship that rules in places like Facebook and TikTok. I set my rules for what I think the proper tone and vocabulary for speaking about things are.I also love using an RSS reader to curate my own feed of people I like to hear from and want a chance to go back and see their stuff if I wasn’t online at the exact right moment to see it. Nothing in my RSS feed gets buried by the latest thoughts on Milkshake Duck or Bean Dad, or whoever the internet has dubbed the main character of the day.So go out and fight against the status quo that Doctorow dubbed “four websites filled with pictures of the other three” and make your own space to fill however you like!
