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Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by nostrademons »

hazeii wrote: post #182
jaredklewis wrote: post #171

And don't forget to write your own compiler, OS, DE, and IDE, lest someone pull the rug out from under you. /s Specialization is at the heart of increasing productivity. Let's say a given person makes awesome travel videos. If that person can find a way to broadcast and monetize those videos with YouTube, Vimeo, or whatever, that almost certainly makes more sense than devoting their time to maintaining their own stre…

Except that so few people make money broadcasting on Youtube, it's very likely they'd make more by learning how to maintain their own streaming platform and using that knowledge ('consulting') to less technical (but more creative) people who think they can make money broadcasting on Youtube.

If they actually made more by learning how to maintain their own streaming platform and offering that knowledge to less technical folks, nobody is stopping them from doing so.

I suspect such an industry does exist, but it's quite a bit smaller than both the number of people profitably creating content on YouTube and the number of employees of YouTube itself, which tells me that maybe the risk-adjusted returns of it aren't as great as you think.

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by ci5er »

uberswe wrote: post #189
mschuster91 wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> also fix the home upload bandwidth issue, and you too can host your own family photos/videos. Not possible without investing literally dozens of billions of dollars into laying fiber - and no matter where you look, actual physical infrastructure like roads, bridges and public transport is outright decaying so where should that money come from, and where in the world do enough actual digging crews exist to lay all t…

I assume you are talking about the US. Seems like a pretty reasonable investment if you cut some military funding or put a small tax on the richest Americans?

Or maybe, ask those consumers to pay $200/month for the Internet that they use, instead of stealing other people's money?

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by la_barba »

ender7 wrote: post #125

Also, unavailable to most people. Yes, I suppose it was kind of nice when the internet was only available to the tech-savvy, to those who didn't mind maintaining a second job as a Unix administrator. But for people who just wanted to _write_, it was not welcoming. Yes, you can go to wordpress.com and sign up for your own blog, but then you're just on the wordpress platform, and subject to their whims. If your plan wo…

Well, we already have numerous explanations of why things are the way are. Is there any proposal for changing the status-quo that people can get behind? That is always the stumbling block. Only a handful of people seem to be bold enough to let their convictions guide them..

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by jimbokun »

sdinsn wrote: post #115
jasode wrote: post #102

Here's something for HN'ers to ponder. Jeff Bezos published the reply to Mr Pecker's sex photos on Twitter [1] and Medium [2] instead of his own platform. (He does own his own domain "jeffbezos.com" as of 2011). I'd love to hear HN readers' theories on why he used someone else's platform. Let's lay out the factors we know that would favor JB using his own platform: + Obviously, JB is not a technology or internet ludd…

You are overthinking this. He used Twitter and Medium because people follow him on those platforms.

I think that was jasode's point?

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by la_barba »

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?

>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.

Okay, but how is this advice useful or practical? You can't build or grow a business without being able to rely on at-least some core tech. It is hard enough having to turn a profit, and make payroll without the additional burden of having to structure an organization where any technology is easily removed, replaced ($) , tested (more $$) and staff re-trained (more $$$) at a moments notice (even more $$$). All that assuming that easy drop-in replacements exist. In my domain (pharma) such a business plan would be the quickest way to bankrupt a company.

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by jaredklewis »

uberswe wrote: post #189
mschuster91 wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> also fix the home upload bandwidth issue, and you too can host your own family photos/videos. Not possible without investing literally dozens of billions of dollars into laying fiber - and no matter where you look, actual physical infrastructure like roads, bridges and public transport is outright decaying so where should that money come from, and where in the world do enough actual digging crews exist to lay all t…

I assume you are talking about the US. Seems like a pretty reasonable investment if you cut some military funding or put a small tax on the richest Americans?

IMHO, there is no shortage of ways the US government's spending allocation could be improved; doesn't mean any of them are politically viable.

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by jaredklewis »

znpy wrote: post #111

I just came here to remind everyone that while this kind of things go on, wordpress is still free both as in free beer and in free software. You can use wordpress.con as a hosted platform, pay for full customisation or host your own. And you can start at any tier and move freely from/to the remaining ones. I think all this fuss is really dumb, people had the answer to their problems in front of you the whole time yet…

Early in my career, during and right after college, I did a lot of consulting for simple sites, many of which used word press. Even in that short time I frequently encountered clients who had their servers owned, and then used for spamming or hosting illegal content. This would go unnoticed by the company until their web host noticed and froze their account.

From some reps at the hosting companies I would contact, I got the sense that such incidents were quite common. And as a consultant, it made me hesitant to recommend WP to clients.

I think those kinds of issues are probably much more likely to be a culprit for people seeking other platforms, rather than WP just not being "cool."

If WP is better security-wise now, that's good, but it can understandably take a while to repair a reputation.

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by Vordimous »

diminoten wrote: post #162

Can someone show me how to do this without running foul of my ISP's service agreement?

So I have been putting together a way for people to more easily make their own blogging platform. Everything is committed to a repository using the JAMstack. Any feedback would be wonderful. https://your-media.netlify.com/post/make-your-own-media/ Everything is owned by you the end user.

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by labawi »

mschuster91 wrote: post #186
mjevans wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The real reason this isn't available to most relates to today's DDoS supporting Internet. Today everyone has to use a CDN to even try to defend against such attacks; and all they do is bulk filter the attack out while degrading the end user transparency of the service. Under 'load' some websites have to load an active filter page and execute code on the clients to authenticate that it's a valid client, rather than an…

> also fix the home upload bandwidth issue, and you too can host your own family photos/videos. Not possible without investing literally dozens of billions of dollars into laying fiber - and no matter where you look, actual physical infrastructure like roads, bridges and public transport is outright decaying so where should that money come from, and where in the world do enough actual digging crews exist to lay all t…

Is there any other physical reason for asymmetric speeds except the asymmetric spectrum allocation? Either for coax or adsl?

People don't usually use much upload and providers don't want you to upload, so you get lower upload speeds vs. download speeds, even in hardware and standards.

Re: Always Own Your Platform

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Post by dragonwriter »

mjevans wrote: post #181
ender7 wrote: post #125

Also, unavailable to most people. Yes, I suppose it was kind of nice when the internet was only available to the tech-savvy, to those who didn't mind maintaining a second job as a Unix administrator. But for people who just wanted to _write_, it was not welcoming. Yes, you can go to wordpress.com and sign up for your own blog, but then you're just on the wordpress platform, and subject to their whims. If your plan wo…

The real reason this isn't available to most relates to today's DDoS supporting Internet. Today everyone has to use a CDN to even try to defend against such attacks; and all they do is bulk filter the attack out while degrading the end user transparency of the service. Under 'load' some websites have to load an active filter page and execute code on the clients to authenticate that it's a valid client, rather than an…

> fix the home upload bandwidth issue

The “home upload bandwidth issue” is “it's not a thing consumers demand, and we have business-class service for people who do have a need forit.”

I'm not sure what there is to solve...

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