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Molly White

What Molly White thinks about personal websites

@molly-white · 12 positions · 0 changes of mind

Software engineer, researcher and writer, a longtime Wikipedia editor, creator of Web3 is Going Just Great and author of the newsletter Citation Needed, which she publishes on her own self-hosted site.

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4 dated positions, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Molly White has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingWebsites outside the big platforms have become hard to find at all, and that is a large part of why they can no longer sustain themselves.

    Their wordsWebsites outside of these handful of social networks are harder and harder to even find, and partially because of that, they have a harder and harder time sustaining themselves.

    ↗Fighting for our webcitationneeded.news 1st of 6 in this piece

  2. 10 days earlier

  3. Our readingFederation is the real fix for losing your community every time a platform dies, but it does not work yet, so publishing on your own site and syndicating out is the interim answer.

    Their wordsI think federation is the long-term solution to these problems. Eventually, I dream we will be able to seamlessly interact with people across platforms.

    ↗POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented worldcitationneeded.news 2nd of 4 in this piece

  5. Our readingYour own site stays the master source even once the work is syndicated everywhere else.

    Their wordsWith this model, even when a platform goes under, you lose relatively little: your posts still remain live and under your control on your site, even if the copies of them on the disconnected website are abandoned or deleted.

    ↗POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented worldcitationneeded.news 3rd of 4 in this piece

  6. 5 months earlier

  7. Our readingNothing about the web technically prevents a return to what people loved about the old web; the good old days are available and would be easier to build now than they ever were.

    Their wordsThe thing is: none of this is gone. Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back.

    ↗We can have a different webcitationneeded.news 1st of 2 in this piece