The Case for Digital Autonomy: Why You Need a Website
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Businesses and creators should prioritize independent websites over social media to ensure ownership, accessibility, and protection from platform volatility.
The Surprising Scale of the Small Web
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The non-commercial 'small web' is surprisingly vast and active, proving that personal, ad-free digital spaces are flourishing despite corporate dominance of the internet.
Do Not Comply: Resisting Google’s XSLT Deprecation and the Corporate Capture of the Web
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Refuse Google’s XSLT deprecation, keep using open formats, and push back against a corporate-controlled web that’s sidelining the user agent.
Join Me for No Socials November
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Join a low-pressure No Socials November: log off, try blogging instead, and share your experience via email.
Wikipedia: AI Answers and Social Video Drive 8% Drop in Human Visits
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Wikipedia’s traffic is slipping as AI answers and social video bypass source clicks, prompting Wikimedia to demand better attribution and traffic from platforms and more support from users.
Make Your Site the Source in the AI Slop Era
In an AI-saturated, trust-poor feed economy, reclaim your work by making your website the canonical source and syndicating elsewhere.
Open Social: Users Own Data, Apps Aggregate
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Put social data back on the open web—users own it, apps aggregate it.
From Search to Answers: Paying Creators in the AI Era
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As AI answer engines disrupt traffic-based monetization, Cloudflare champions a new model where AI companies pay creators for the unique content that improves their models.
Ravenous AI Crawlers Are Breaking the Web—and Driving It Behind Paywalls
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AI crawlers’ ravenous, non-reciprocal scraping is breaking websites and pushing the open web toward paywalled fragmentation.
No Clicks, No Content: How AI Search Cannibalizes Its Own Fuel
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By replacing links with AI answers, tech firms are eroding the web’s incentive to produce content—and ultimately starving their own AI.