I recently came across this article and comic by the OatMeal. A long running web comic artist, draws a comic on how to reach people on the internet today 2021.
He laments over the change we see in the internet, everyone goes to a few large websites and rarely see other small ones. You have to pay a lot to get views on your post or boost as they call it. See his post on this what it used to be.
I feel with the upcoming VR and Metaverses there will be an even more pervasive closed walled ecosystem and not enabling individuals to create their own platform.
The comic is a reminder to build your own digital website you can own. Use these platforms as tools to gain awareness if you can but always have a place to call your own.
I see WordPress.com as a Walled Garden but its walls are short where you can take your content and host it elsewhere, when you feel like it.
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The OatMeal also was mention on the Yah Lah But Podcast about his social media post.
Listen in at 1:09:00 it’s near the end of the now last five minutes.
