It's one thing for users to give their membership, patronage and data to a centralized for-profit, startup type company. It's another, totally absurd to me, thi

It's one thing for users to give their membership, patronage and data to a centralized for-profit, startup type company. It's another, totally absurd to me, thing to cede control of your company's online presence to some other startup... just for a simple blog. And still no one seemed to care even when Medium started nagging users to signup when just trying to read an article... I just don't get it. It's not a good look when I go to read a technical article from [startup], and wind up staring at a fullscreen popup begging me to signup for a Medium account. Really? I'm adding it to my list of lessons that apparently people have to learn first hand - make personal backups [no, really, it's not that hard], use a password manager [no, really, it's easier than not], don't use GoDaddy [they were just on HN again in the last few weeks]... and don't use thin little SaaS that don't do anything and just want to posses your content and your users and eventually go under or go dark, leaving you holding the bag.