<i>&gt;And when you publish your own HTML to a server that you control; that&#x27;s fucking powerful. Autonomy and independence are central to the web. We can&#x27;t forget that.<p>&gt;The world still needs some fucking webmasters. We might not all be making websites professionally anymore. But we should keep making websites. The passion, the freedom, the joy: we need to pass this on.</i><p>I appreciate the enthusiasm for wanting to empower people but the technology (e.g. simpler format of HTML, or open standards instead of walled gardens, etc) is not really the issue even though it looks that way.  I&#x27;ve commented on this illusion before[1].<p>The underlying issue is the asymmetry between active participants and passive spectators.  Most people <i>don&#x27;t care</i> to make an HTML web page.  On the other hand... Uploading a photo of a cat or plate of food to facebook or twitter?  Or type a short response comment to a niece saying &quot;love your new dress!&quot;?   Yes, a good percentage of people will conquer the threshold of complexity to do that... but it&#x27;s still not the majority of users.<p>Even though I don&#x27;t like it, I&#x27;ve come to terms with the fact that the human race is &quot;wired&quot; to make easy posts on Facebook rather than maintain an HTML web page on a server they control.  Most people don&#x27;t want to be &quot;webmasters&quot;.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10010540" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10010540</a>