Always Own Your Platform (2019)
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Always Own Your Platform (2019)
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#2Previous (2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20145704
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#3http://IndieWeb.org/POSSE to a rescue.
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#4Haven[1] is your own platform for publishing privately when you're not trying to "build an audience"
[1]: https://havenweb.org
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#5Sounds cool in theory but almost impossible and impractical. For example, you can have a newsletter but google could decide your domain belongs in Spam forever. There goes that “owned platform”
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#6Sounds cool in theory but almost impossible and impractical. For example, you can have a newsletter but google could decide your domain belongs in Spam forever. There goes that “owned platform”
I don't think there is any fix for that except for people to deliberatively and incrementally take that power from their hands. not betting on the outcome. I guess the old real hope is that 15 years from now when google is finally no longer relevant, that smaller business and individuals diffuse that control more broadly.
or we get google 2.0
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#7Sounds cool in theory but almost impossible and impractical. For example, you can have a newsletter but google could decide your domain belongs in Spam forever. There goes that “owned platform”
Well, technically it's still an owned platform, just in this context it's a platform that got owned by google.
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#8Really hard for non-techies; even a hosted WordPress isn't easy to use. I've been asked a few times 'I want to write online, what do I do?' and it's hard to find easy to use answers that don't involve vendor lock-in. Or me having to provide support forever.
SSGs with plain text files are brilliant once you are set up, but it's a big hurdle getting there.
Best I can do is try to find platforms with sane exit strategies.
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#9> Facebook, Google, Twitter, Medium, and YouTube entice us to give them our creative work. It's time to take it back ... Stop giving away your work to people who don't care about it. Host it yourself.
So, youtube, right? Where would you host your videos if you had a mind to take them back?
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#10The reason why you should own your own platform is called “platform risk”.