"I was wondering if there are any substantial gains by moving your content to Medium, or is it mainly because of the fad/coolness factor. Maybe it is the commun

"I was wondering if there are any substantial gains by moving your content to Medium, or is it mainly because of the fad/coolness factor. Maybe it is the community?" Wednesday September 23, 2009, there was a similar questioning by Joe Hewwitt of sharecropping with the Apple iPhone. [0] This is the bit I wrote on blogging: If you don't want to be reliant on commercial services like MT or even the free ones like Wordpress there is nothing stopping you getting your own machine with a full stack of software using your own software. Dave Winer does this at scriping.com You don't need to be in the system to use it. For each example I've given above users had the choice to work entirely within the restricted stack and somehow subvert it. So is there gains? Well convenience for one. You don't have to own a server, admin the site or maintain the code nor worry about distribution. The question to ask is, "Are you willing to pay the price if/when Medium change the service or close it?" Do you want to emulate the Dave Winer [1] and Joe Hewitts of the world or be a sheeple? Of course the original post I made hosted on my own, albeit crappy site: ~ http://seldomlogical.com/sharecrop.html http://seldomlogical.com/sharecrop.html [0] "Joe Hewitt: On Middle Men" ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=941085 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=941085 [1] Dave Winer, "Happy 20th anniversary to Dave Winer – inventor of the blog" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/12/happy-20th-anniversary-dave-winer-inventor-of-the-blog http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/12/happy-20th...