I wrote this three years ago:
“One day, Twitter and other publishing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or Medium will indeed die, like so many sites before them. And every time this happens, we lose most of the content we created and with it a fair amount of our collective cultural history.”
Own your content.
Publish on your own site.
https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse
@matthiasott This argument makes very little sense to me. Personal websites require even more care and die even more quickly, particularly when something bad happens to the owner. Not everybody has techies in the family and knows how to set up things like domain and server transfers on death from a legal perspective. A Medium account is for forever, or until the service goes down.
@miki @matthiasott Personal websites also require some semblance of design and development to stand out, and being able to do those tasks is relative privilege. I'd love to lovingly craft my own site but at the same time I'm blind, work in accessibility, and cannot independently verify that it meets my own high visual accessibility standards. If I also hate walled gardens, it's easier to just not write anything.