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#52Hmm! Are there any self-hosted things like Notion? This is good for finished work, but, notes and in-progress and etc…?
https://Obsidian.md is great for that
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#53Blogspot has disabled a number of backend services so that it’s no longer compatible with, e.g., MarsEdit. I had one last blog I was still updating on a blogspot site that I just moved over to its own domain because of this.
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#54List of reasons why this is very narrow minded: 1. You still own your work if you post it other places, just not the platform. 2. You own the platform if you host it on a VPS, but not the hardware. 3. You own the hardware if you host it at home, but still, only license the software which runs it. 4. Many more. You want real advice? Ignore this guy, and just start. Most of you people concerned on where you should star…
Exactly. Whether you control the underlying operating system (or network connection) or just the content at the application layer, you're still relying on someone else. If you don't have good content to share, it's moot anyway.
At the end of the day, any service trades control for convenience/access. I run a podcast hosting service that's slightly more expensive than hosting yourself with WordPress. Paying me to host your show gets you a platform that's had 99.999% uptime for years. You don't need to think about renewing your domains or certificates or installing WordPress/Apache/nginx/Ubuntu/whatever updates. You don't need to think about how to get accurate analytics or filtering out automated requests from your log data. You don't need to worry about your show being protected by a single auth factor. If your time is worth $60/hr and my service is $10/mo, is your podcast taking more than two hours a year of your time (minus hosting costs)? Some people don't want to make that tradeoff and that's fine, but it's simply a better choice to find a third party that you trust to do stuff for you.
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#55Even though I agree, there will always be things that we don't own.
I'm developing my blog in Svelte, and I trust that (despite being kind of a niche framework) it will last for long. But if it gets abandoned by its developers then I'll have a problem.
The only way for me to own everything on it would be to do develop as much as I can by myself, like quit using Sass and Svelte in favor of plain CSS and vanilla JS, and also self-host it instead of relying on a VPS. And that's not even mentioning the dependencies of the API, which is made in Rust and its less mature ecosystem
I think that the path to software preservation is a long long road
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#56Come catch me at avgcorrection.name where I put a disclaimer on the main page saying that my opinions are my own and don’t reflect the opinions of my current employer nor any of my previuos employers.
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#57The underlying truth behind all such discussions is that too many people focus on the mechanics of content hosting and delivery but have nothing special to actually share. So they will spend all their time engineering the perfect blog site from scratch or moving from platform to platform looking for an ideological fit while no one really cares about consuming any of their output. My advice is always to forget about t…
> ”If there is value in what you write then the readers will be there” I don’t think that’s true anymore. Of course, it depends on how you define “value”, but I think having something “special” to share not always attract readers. Controversial takes, click bait, hate bait, exaggerated praising to a specific niche, all of this works better than “value” in your writing to get readers. Even if you stick to “value”, you…
Part of the value in what is written is the author behind the writing and our understanding of their life and experiences.
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#58My takeaway from this post is more general and somewhat different.
Everything dies, which is really fast in the case of software systems. The programming framework you have chosen, the note-taking software you use, and your friendships will go away someday. It's a sad reality, but it's the truth. So should we stop using things that will end anyway?
No! Of course not. You just have to be aware of it and be able to do something when things or people go away.
Regarding the topic of this post, use social media, blogging platforms, your VPS, etc. Just keep in mind that things die, and you should be able to recover from them. I am not suggesting any particular way for the way you share your writings; do what works best for you. However, I suggest not going to the extreme and abandoning everything that ends. Think of how you can make use of these mortal platforms and have a backup plan for when they eventually die.
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#59The underlying truth behind all such discussions is that too many people focus on the mechanics of content hosting and delivery but have nothing special to actually share. So they will spend all their time engineering the perfect blog site from scratch or moving from platform to platform looking for an ideological fit while no one really cares about consuming any of their output. My advice is always to forget about t…
In college, I did my calculus homework on blank printer paper using Sharpie markers. I could only fit one integral per page, maybe two if I was lucky, so I’d turn in these 15-page stapled assignments. It was calculus all the same, and I got great grades. I think the purpose of this comment is to reinforce that the medium doesn’t matter — if you focus on the content itself, you’ll progress.
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#60The underlying truth behind all such discussions is that too many people focus on the mechanics of content hosting and delivery but have nothing special to actually share. So they will spend all their time engineering the perfect blog site from scratch or moving from platform to platform looking for an ideological fit while no one really cares about consuming any of their output. My advice is always to forget about t…
> while no one really cares about consuming any of their output
Most people who blog don't aim to be influential writers. It's more about self expression.
> they will follow you if you decide to move your work elsewhere in the future
Except this almost never happens in the real world