No algorithm. No engagement metrics. No template that makes you look like everyone else. Homestead gives you a real website — your own address, your own HTML, your own weird and wonderful self.
✳ YOUR SITE, YOUR RULES ✳ NO ADS ✳ NO TRACKING ✳ NO FEED ✳ HTML IS A FOLK ART ✳ MAKE SOMETHING WEIRD ✳ LINK TO YOUR FRIENDS ✳ UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOREVER ✳✳ YOUR SITE, YOUR RULES ✳ NO ADS ✳ NO TRACKING ✳ NO FEED ✳ HTML IS A FOLK ART ✳ MAKE SOMETHING WEIRD ✳ LINK TO YOUR FRIENDS ✳ UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOREVER ✳
01 — THE MANIFESTO
We believe in the personal web.
№ 1
A profile is not a home.
You are not a row in someone’s database. A personal site is a place you build, decorate, and rebuild — not a form you fill out.
№ 2
The algorithm is not your editor.
What you make should reach people because they chose to visit — not because a ranking system decided your life was engaging enough.
№ 3
Weird is the point.
Sameness is a design flaw. Blinking text, strange layouts, half-finished pages — that’s what a human on the internet looks like.
№ 4
You should own your address.
Platforms die and take your work with them. A site with your name on it outlives every feed you ever posted to.