Congratulations to Manton on the launch of micro.one! I have been a happy customer of micro.blog since launch and I love this new simplified version that makes blogging even more accessible at a super low $10 a year!

Living inside the little box that a social media platforms give you, in exchange for your personal data, is oppressive. Having a voice on the web means having your own domain. Even the simple act of formatting with bold, italics, and using hyperlinks freely can only be achieved on your own blog. Take a moment to consider that. Using these massive surveillance systems is fundamentally curtailing your ability to express yourself. In return for what? Being fed an algorithmic stream of garbage to addict you?

Having your own website has never been easier. And it isn’t free which is also how you know it is honest! My Grandpa, and probably yours too, taught me there was no free lunch. $10 a year to be able to express yourself on the web? So cheap. There is no way I know of to take a photo, attach a few sentences, and put them on the web better or easier than this.

In celebration of the launch I would love to sponsor some micro.one users. Email me if you’d like to get your own blog but the $10 is a barrier… it is an extension of my Weekly Thing Christmas Blogs!

There are organizations that I think are making the web better every day: Wikimedia, Let’s Encrypt, Internet Archive, Creative Commons. I think I need to add micro.blog to that list!