To publish or not to publish, that is the question

My apologies to William Shakespeare 😂

To publish, or not to publish, that is the question:

Whether ’tis nobler to dwell within
The walled gardens of the mighty platforms,
There to harvest likes and fleeting notice,
Or to take up domain, server, and editor
Against a sea of convenience,
And by persistence build a place of one’s own.

To write, to host, no more. And by a host to say
We end the tyranny of engagement,
The heartache of algorithms,
And the thousand manufactured urgencies
That modern creators suffer.

To write, to host. To host, perchance to matter.
Ay, there’s the hope.

For in that quiet corner of the Net
What conversations may yet bloom,
When we have shrugged off metrics, trends, and reach,
Must give us courage.

That is the spirit
That keeps the small web alive.

Journal

To publish or not to publish, that is the question