Skip to content

All you need is a free text editor …

All you need is a free text editor and a hosting bill...the indieweb is punk is the vibe I'm feeling: We Own the Masters Now In the old days, the music industry owned the masters, the distribution, the airwaves. You made the music; they made the money and decided if anyone got to hear it....

Clay Lowe
Aug 23, 20261 min read

ll you need is a free text editor and a hosting bill…the indieweb is punk is the vibe I’m feeling:

We Own the Masters Now

In the old days, the music industry owned the masters, the distribution, the airwaves. You made the music; they made the money and decided if anyone got to hear it.

Big platforms run the same racket. You write the posts, build the audience, generate the engagement, and they own the feed, the algorithm, and the right to bury you or boot you whenever it suits the shareholders.

Not here. Own your domain. Own your data. Own your identity. Your words live on infrastructure you control, not on borrowed servers that can evict you without notice.

The Indieweb is Punk Manifesto (read it with great care and post it on your blog. if you don’t have a blog, start one, and post the manifesto as your first post. if you need help setting up your own blog, drop me a note and i’ll help you get started).

Did you enjoy this article?

Recommend it — Standard Reader surfaces well-loved writing to more readers across the network.

Across the AtmosphereDiscussions