The digital space has no scarcity—only artificial scarcity. The internet was built as an open, decentralized network where anyone could carve out a space to share their thoughts, creations, and ideas. Yet, over time, we've allowed a handful of corporations to create digital borders and bottlenecks, enforcing limitations that exist purely to extract profit. Platforms fence off what should be an endless frontier, turning abundant digital real estate into exclusive ad farms and paywalled gardens. Bandwidth, hosting, exposure—these are not truly scarce, but they’re made to seem that way to control who gets seen and who stays silent. In truth, the internet is infinite in potential, and anyone can stake their claim. The tools are there, the space is limitless, and the gatekeepers are only powerful if you believe you need them.
Creating your own website is an act of individualistic defiance. When you make a site by hand—coding it line by line, designing it pixel by pixel—you’re rejecting the default template offered by corporate platforms. You're saying no to the homogenization of digital expression, and yes to the raw, imperfect, expressive reality of doing it yourself. It's a protest, not in loud slogans, but in style, creativity, and ownership. Your site doesn’t have to be optimized for clicks or bound by trends; it only needs to be yours. That’s what makes it powerful. It's not just personal—it’s political. You’re choosing freedom over convenience, learning over passivity, and identity over branding.
You have no control over your social media profile. Every post, every photo, every interaction is at the mercy of algorithms you can’t see and policies you didn’t choose. Your “profile” is not a home—it’s a rented billboard on someone else’s wall. It can be demonetized, deboosted, shadowbanned, or deleted without notice. What feels like your digital self is actually just data—harvested, categorized, and sold. True digital ownership starts when you break free from these walled gardens and build something of your own. With your own website, you control the layout, the content, the rules. You’re not being sold to, manipulated, or silenced. You exist online on your own terms. That’s the web as it should be. - Alex