Putting the “Person” in “Personal Website”
2nd October 2024
The other day I saw a meme that went something like this:
Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities like singing, dancing, and making art have been turned into skills instead of being recognized as behaviors? The point of doing these things has become to get good at them. But they should be recognized as things humans do innately, like how birds sing or bees make hives.
I thought about that for a minute, then decided: making websites should be the same!
The original vision for the web, according to Tim Berners-Lee, was to make it a collaborate medium where everyone could read and write.
Social media sort of achieved this, but the incentives are off. And it’s not just about ownership of the content you produce and who can monetize it, but the context in which you produce it.
Everyone ought to have a personal website. That way they can make public anything that they think ought to be made public, and other people have the ability to consume it or not, as they choose. As an added bonus, the type of people who require attention/validation to feel good about themselves increase their chances of becoming so despondent and lonely that they self-delete, thus improving the gene pool for the rest of us.
I’m all about improving the gene pool for the rest of us. Just sayin’.