Counterpoint: https://i.imgur.com/CJVL9bF.png
It's not a counterpoint. It's the point.
Always Own Your Platform
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Re: Always Own Your Platform
#52Because they own their own platform, they can't handle HN traffic. Idealism, meet harsh reality.
Re: Always Own Your Platform
#53From 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…
Are you seriously trying to say that he can't make this point unless he builds his own twitter? https://i.imgur.com/iBAIRqF.png
I'm both a programmer and a pedant, so my opinion is that he's allowed to make this point and be an active Twitter user if his domain is OwnYourPlatform.com, but not if his domain is AlwaysOwnYourPlatform.com. :)
Re: Always Own Your Platform
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Define resilient. In one month that snapshot will be gone.
Re: Always Own Your Platform
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or maybe it is a meta statement of what can go wrong. probably no :)
It'd better be! :-D Lesson no 1: don't use shared web hosting. Though looks more like Dreamhost removed a site that was hogging down a whole server thanks to HN.
Lesson no 2: Cache, cache, cache. Close that connection as quickly as you can.
Re: Always Own Your Platform
#56I already do. https://wordsandbuttons.online/ is just a static script-maintainable stand alone site. It has no 3rd-party platform but the web hosting. Moreover, I own the domain and don't really rely on anything provider-specific. I can migrate it any day and users wouldn't notice a thing. I also use GitHub to host sources https://github.com/akalenuk/wordsandbuttons but it's just a convenience not a necessity. The wh…
Similar story here. I use pelican to generate my site. I wrote a very lightweight theme for it too (under 10k per page). I can host it anywhere that serves html.
Re: Always Own Your Platform
#57Talking to the HN crowd about platform ownership is pointless. It's obvious that most people here are not able or willing to grasp the long-term consequences of super-centralization, including many so-called security and scalability experts. Not a big surprise, because a lot of them work for highly centralized platforms, aspire to become one, or to be bough by one.
What? HN probably has the largest proportion of people who maintain their own websites out of any other major aggregator community.
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#58I'm on my way there, now I just need a markdown driven, password protected, browser-editing supported CMS
Re: Always Own Your Platform
#59From 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…
Are you seriously trying to say that he can't make this point unless he builds his own twitter? https://i.imgur.com/iBAIRqF.png
The original comic implies that abstaining from owning an iPhone is equivalent to not participating in society. Basically if your principles are so weak that you can't abstain from owning a luxury phone brand, which should take a literal bare minimum effort, then you don't really have these principles.
A Twitter account is not a requirement to participate in society either. You don't even have to build your own Twitter, there are a few open-source clones that can be self-hosted.
Re: Always Own Your Platform
#60Talking to the HN crowd about platform ownership is pointless. It's obvious that most people here are not able or willing to grasp the long-term consequences of super-centralization, including many so-called security and scalability experts. Not a big surprise, because a lot of them work for highly centralized platforms, aspire to become one, or to be bough by one.
What? HN probably has the largest proportion of people who maintain their own websites out of any other major aggregator community.
>HN probably has the largest proportion of people who maintain their own websites
...on AWS.