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Having your own website is not going to fix democracy, or capitalism, but it makes a political statement. It says "I want to carve my own space on the web" and I think this is a radical act. It was when I originally said this in 2022, and I mean it even more today. localghost.dev/blog/this-pa...

localghost.devThis page is under construction - localghostIf you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.

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haven’t read the piece yet, but just want to say: congratulations on your excellence in domain naming carry on!

Can only agree! I've been having, expanding and evolving my personal website for 27 years. I eventually removed some of the older outdated pages from the main site navigation, but left ways to find them for those who want to see it all.

Definitely agree to you all. But how do you deal with legal stuff? I am talking about privacy policies, cookie banners etc. These are all things that you can get a fine for if you don't do it properly.

If you don't deal with user data you don't need a privacy policy, and you only need a cookie banner if you use cookies that store non-essential information

In Germany, the IP address counts as user data. Most servers log IP addresses. That's why basically everybody needs a privacy policy except for private websites clearly meant for private use. Meaning strangers can't access websites. So, all websites that want German visitors need a privacy policy.

The IP address counts a PII everywhere the GDPR is in force. Many hosting providers do not log or store IP addresses by default and those that do, it's trivial to switch the logging off. Then you don't need a privacy policy or cookie banner of you don't store IP addresses

I don't know how it is in the rest of the EU. But it should be similar. I am not complaining to you. ^^ I am rather complaining that websites aren't accessible for private people without much money or lawyers.

I love this! And totally agree, although I never learned to seriously write code so I try to do this as independently as I can in a no-code kinda way with Ghost. But individual, self-owned websites are totally a political statement I reckon, and I would love to see more of it.