The age of people willing to go through the effort to start and maintain their own website has LONG since passed.
A nice utopia... but one that won't ever be real, sadly.
I was one of them. I won't do it now. Security threats have become so time consuming nowadays to handle.
A static website on a simple shared host isn't really an issue security wise, and even WordPress has become much better in that regard as it has automatic unattended upgrades these days.
The problems are bots spamming, or attacking to gather PI. Too much effort. We can't have nice things anymore
Neither can happen on a static website.
And if you are doing POSSE anyways, you can just embedd a Mastodon feed for comments if you really want that.
I am talking about "forum-like" websites not static web pages. The article is about fediverse
The article is mostly about POSSE and how to manage sharing links to your blog to many different social media sites.
Static website builders are often specifically designed for blogs.
Tbf, these days you don't even need to do the entire weight lifting of maintain your own website for the most part. I mean, we do are users at SDF, right?
POSSE’s problems start at the very beginning: it requires owning your own website, which means buying a domain and worrying about DNS records and figuring out web hosts, and by now
You don't need your own domain to have your own site. Sure, it's ideal to have, but not necessary; all you need is a "community name provider" that you trust to remain trustable for as long as you care to maintain your webpage. For me, that could have been Geocities back in its time; now, well, it's SDF. Neocities is tempting me tho
Buying your own domain I feel like it's oversold and overblown. Domains these days barely mean shit when it comes to security, authenticity or longevity (as we've seen with eg.: the entire .ml fiasco, or the fact that you can very perfectly get malware from domains like Steam's or Microsoft's).
The age of people willing to go through the effort to start and maintain their own website has LONG since passed.
A nice utopia... but one that won't ever be real, sadly.
I was one of them. I won't do it now. Security threats have become so time consuming nowadays to handle.
A static website on a simple shared host isn't really an issue security wise, and even WordPress has become much better in that regard as it has automatic unattended upgrades these days.
The problems are bots spamming, or attacking to gather PI. Too much effort. We can't have nice things anymore
Neither can happen on a static website.
And if you are doing POSSE anyways, you can just embedd a Mastodon feed for comments if you really want that.
I am talking about "forum-like" websites not static web pages. The article is about fediverse
The article is mostly about POSSE and how to manage sharing links to your blog to many different social media sites.
Static website builders are often specifically designed for blogs.
Tbf, these days you don't even need to do the entire weight lifting of maintain your own website for the most part. I mean, we do are users at SDF, right?
You don't need your own domain to have your own site. Sure, it's ideal to have, but not necessary; all you need is a "community name provider" that you trust to remain trustable for as long as you care to maintain your webpage. For me, that could have been Geocities back in its time; now, well, it's SDF.
Neocities is tempting me thoBuying your own domain I feel like it's oversold and overblown. Domains these days barely mean shit when it comes to security, authenticity or longevity (as we've seen with eg.: the entire .ml fiasco, or the fact that you can very perfectly get malware from domains like Steam's or Microsoft's).