A web home crumbling like chalk

evacide: If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over. I… can relate to this. If you’re the kind of person reading this, chances are you do too. Even younger people have experienced this. I caught the blogging bug when it was the trendy thing to do in 2004. But while others had the sense (at the time) to move onto new and better things, I stuck around here. I wish I could say it was down to a desire to own my space, or to stick it to the man, or some grand vision for a decentralised, federated utopia. The truth was far more mundane: blogging with server-side software I ran, on a domain I owned, was the workflow I’d established. Inertia carried me along further than any ideals, until I realised what we’d lost and clung onto it with newfound conviction and purpose. (I first wrote purpose…