tom@macwright.org Tom MacWright archive projects talks github twitter about Blogging in 2017 is absurd: most people don’t own websites anymore. Microblogging might be still in, video blogging might be the last-next frontier, and maybe tinyletter will stay underground-cool. It’s pretty weird to run your own website, to care about making it efficient , to keep using last-gen tech like Jekyll . So, if it’s going to be weird, we might as well go whole-hog and become decentralization hipsters. Decentralizing the web, or at least avoiding the monopoly-fueled monoculture of the web, has been around forever - projects like WASTE and Tor hidden services have been around for forever , but a popular, daily-usable, semi-mainstream alternative to the internet has been elusive and in the period of 2009-2013ish was overshadowed by other trends. But now in 2017, a re-decentralized web - ...