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Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by BoiledCabbage »

jawns wrote: post #27

From the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20190324154559/http://alwaysowny... > You know, it wasn't that long ago. There was RSS. There were blogs. There were sub-groups and communities. The weirdos found each other. The non-weirdos found each other. It wasn't perfect. But it was distributed. It was ours. > It was yours. > Now? The original dream of the web is dying. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Medium, and…

I don't own HN, should I not post here?

Seriously, is the recommendation that everyone who posts content own the platform? That's impossible to have a shared location for content.

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by nopriorarrests »

dsr_ wrote: post #16
nopriorarrests wrote: post #3

Generic 'oh guys let's make world better' stuff, without explaining how it could be really done irl. I mean, popular vlogger owning his own platform, really? Eating hosting costs, solving discoverability problem, etc?

Solve the underlying problem, which is: What do I do now so that when the platform doesn't work, I still can? Now the answer is obvious: you don't need to stop using platforms, you need to stop being dependent on any given platform. Store all your videos in two different storage providers, plus your house archive. Have accounts on at least two different video distribution systems. Get people interested in seeing your…

good advice to follow, but the problem is...

if you are 21 y.o. vlogger focused on barbell training and restoring old american muscle cars, this advice will sound like "dude just do more straight deadlifts and focus on hi-rep kroc rows, they will help you with development of your back" -- aka, some special gibberish speak. it takes so much knowledge to do so, it just won't happen.

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by rchaud »

coding123 wrote: post #13
xwdv wrote: post #7

No point in owning your own platform unless you are in the business of building and running a platform. The real advice is to always be ready to abandon your platform at any moment and move on to a new one should its policies no longer be in your favor. Always be preparing for this scenario. What’s your contingency plan?

Why give the platform all that seo. In the long past era we used to have a bunch of random webshops. Now sellers can barely survive unless they are on Etsy eBay or Amazon. We gave them all that free SEO and now we are wishing we didn't.

Yeah, and back in the day the random webshops you're referring to didn't do a fraction of the business that Ebay, Etsy and Shopify are doing now.

If people thought they could not pay those platforms' fees and still do OK, don't you think they would have? They're going to those platforms because that's where the shoppers are.

You can definitely attempt to control your own SEO, but most sellers are there to sell stuff now; they don't have time to learn SEO and implement it if it doesn't bring them more business or save them more time compared to using another merchant's platform.

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by willvarfar »

atian wrote: post #20

Not Found The requested URL / was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Always Own Your Platform

Lots of web hosting providers have this kind of thing on cheap tiers if you go over the quota. So we can speculate that we've HN-hugged it to death.

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by kuu »

Is it still possible? I mean, how can an individual compete in someway with the giants as Facebook, Google, Twitter etc. How can you get visibility? How can you get the audience when everyone is somewhere else (even here in HNs)?

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by rchaud »

gargron wrote: post #25

It's an odd page that doesn't offer any solutions or calls to action... But "own your platform" is basically the principle of Mastodon [1], where you don't have to sacrifice the idea of "reach" because all individually hosted Mastodon servers are interoperable, so you can get followers and go viral all across the network. [1]: https://joinmastodon.org

It's probably an alpha stage project that's in the feedback gathering phase. Given who's behind it, I fully expect this to become a fully "productized" thing later, replete with newsletter/ebook popups and some SaaS offering.

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by libria »

cabaalis wrote: post #22
atian wrote: post #20

Not Found The requested URL / was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Always Own Your Platform

The server is responding, though, so maybe an argument for owning your platform is being able to permanently remove your content if you so choose?

Should return 410 Gone though.

Here's a cache from another more resilient platform: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ybKXu0F...

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by bitwize »

atian wrote: post #20

Not Found The requested URL / was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Always Own Your Platform

Now, LoneStarr, you see that evil will always triumph -- because good doesn't scale.

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by tdhz77 »

bitwize wrote: post #38
atian wrote: post #20

Not Found The requested URL / was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Always Own Your Platform

Now, LoneStarr, you see that evil will always triumph -- because good doesn't scale.

Why do I love this quote so much?

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by jsgo »

BoiledCabbage wrote: post #31
jawns wrote: post #27

From the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20190324154559/http://alwaysowny... > You know, it wasn't that long ago. There was RSS. There were blogs. There were sub-groups and communities. The weirdos found each other. The non-weirdos found each other. It wasn't perfect. But it was distributed. It was ours. > It was yours. > Now? The original dream of the web is dying. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Medium, and…

I don't own HN, should I not post here? Seriously, is the recommendation that everyone who posts content own the platform? That's impossible to have a shared location for content.

Not the author, so no idea, but it seems to be directed more at people who put their content directly on other platforms to be doing wrong.

Creating content on yourblog.tld and linking to it from Twitter/Facebook/etc. is fine, but creating content on Twitter/Facebook/etc. prevents you from really owning it. Same audiences, but now you have control over the content (for the most part. People can copy your content or there is caching).

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