 What's up Summers, so it is my firm belief that every person who matters on the internet that includes you Should have their own personal website Now why do I say that in the past couple years actually? 2018 was probably the worst year ever for the internet in fact It's been getting worse and worse with every passing year And it's been getting worse because of these things called social media sites now. I've talked about upcoming before I've talked about the psychological effects of social media sites But I'm not talking about that here what I mean by that is actually let me Nostalgia is for a second you zoomers might not remember it But back back in the old days of the internet the internet was truly a magical place Anyone could just put whatever on it. They still can but nowadays the internet is dominated by these huge sites And everyone goes to them but in in the past This is this is something beautiful that many of you guys don't remember back in I don't know the 90s mid early 90s something like that All sites were sort of equal. There was no Twitter. There was no Facebook, of course And every you know each HTML page which all had horrible formatting. They were all something special They were all full of folklore and magic and gifts of flying UFOs and all this kind of stuff and Anyone you know there was a kind of equal footing there was a kind of I don't like the word democracy I'm not a big fan of that stuff But there was a kind of democratic aspect of the internet back then And you know you put everything in the proper perspective. It's not like you see Oh this bigfoot site and you believe everything they say, but you know everything was sort of put in the right proportion That is opposed to network news or something like that, you know network news They have all these fancy graphics. They have all these people who are talking in straight faces And really it's just a psychological trick to say things matter-of-factly so you believe them That is what the internet is like nowadays nowadays. We have fact-checkers Fact-checkers Twitter will tell you what is right by putting up what story you're supposed to believe in the trending area Facebook does the same thing all these social media sites now these social media sites exist for a reason They didn't I mean it's not just an error. They exist. They did something provided something good. Sorry I'm like walking on a log. I apologize if I fall The social media sites did provide something good that is the internet per se is a little difficult to use It's it can be a sort of hard process to set up a Email server a web server an IRC server I don't know maybe even an RSS feed things like this So social media sites make that process easy and that's what they did at the At the beginning, you know if you don't want to if you don't want to make you run website Hey come to my space. We will create a page for you that you can customize and weirdly enough Well, you've actually since my my space used to be very customizable nowadays. You have Facebook No, you can't really customize anything, but um, you know there what social media sites provided it Is they made the process of making a website even though it wasn't really yours easier? Now what has happened of course is that now that all of the eggs are in that one basket? Um You suddenly realize oh social media sites can go bad they can do bad things they can use the Extreme amounts of power in bad ways and that was especially that's been especially evident in the past couple years because you know Especially in 2016 people realize oh me magic is real like the internet can affect real life They can actually It can actually become a threat to the powers that be so the powers that be have to do something about it They have to make the internet like network news They have to use social media sites not just to give people platforms But also to decide who gets to be a real person and who isn't if Facebook if all these services are using Facebook and Facebook now Has a kind of officiality to it well We can now keep you from existing by banning you from Facebook now of course I guess I don't exist because I don't have a Facebook I never really had actually I did for a brief period someone made me one, but I deleted it But they're You know now that people think in the these narrow terms of specific websites It sort of causes a lot of trouble for the internet now again as I said I think that all people the ideal for the internet is for every person who has something to say should have their own Website that's why in a couple weeks maybe in a couple days I'm gonna be doing a series on how to set up your own web server server and all the stuff You need to know if you don't know anything about starting up a website. I'm gonna Do a series on it so But of course there are resources out there now what one of the problems again social media sites made this kind of process easy Or it's not it's not really a process because you know you're not actually getting a website out of it But social media sites made that stuff easy and I think in order to go forward Oh, let's put it this way a lot of people ask me about alternate social media sites What do I think about I don't know mastodon? What do I think about? I don't know there's some Facebook alternate I don't know all these alternative sites and for me the alternative site is just the internet the internet has a Chat protocol it has you know email messaging messaging protocol. It has RSS feeds It has all the things that social media sites have it's just an issue of making it accessible to people and making it So, you know normal people can actually use it That to me is the problem So for me, I am not in the mood to rely on a social media platform I'm not gonna rely on their consent to exist on the internet. It's just not gonna happen. I'm not I don't even bother I mean YouTube is the closest thing I come to and every day I think about what am I gonna do when I'm banned from YouTube That's that's just the thought that basically everyone has to think about nowadays because you never know Where the strikes are gonna be coming from you know So anyway, that's pretty much all I had to say again the internet it's not supposed to be the way it is There's a magic to a decentralized what internet where everyone has their own crappy sites and people are less reliant on these big ones So that is what I encourage you to do invest in creating your own website invest in having your own independent existence on the internet and You will not have to worry about all this stuff Continually happening because although they can oh they can you know do this or that they can try and get your registrar to You know get rid of you But when it comes down to it people who get banned on these sites who have no who just have a Twitter I just one example. So a couple years ago Milo, you remember that guy Milo got banned from Twitter And he didn't have anything besides a Twitter. So when he got banned from Twitter, he basically stopped existing Okay, his life was over Compare that to recently Alex Jones was banned Alex Jones He had his own site that he had curated for decades He had all the infrastructure worked out and although Alex Jones took a big hit when he was banned He still exists people still consume his content It's probably less than when he was on YouTube, but he still exists So you can be a peer-reviewed spy relearn and say oh they're gonna come for me eventually No, well, that's not an excuse for at least having contingencies. So start your own website Start your own independent web existence and I'll help you with my coming series or you can just look for another series online But anyway, that's all I had to say in this this video. I'll see you guys next time