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I don't own HN, should I not post here? Seriously, is the recommendation that everyone who posts content own the platform? That's impossible to have a shared l

• jsgo 7y ago
  Not the author, so no idea, but it seems to be directed more at people who put their content directly on other platforms to be doing wrong. Creating content on yourblog.tld and linking to it from Twitter/Facebook/etc. is fine, but creating content on Twitter/Facebook/etc. prevents you from really owning it. Same audiences, but now you have control over the content (for the most part. People can copy your content or there is caching).
• maehwasu 7y ago
  If you were relying on HN as a place to build your own brand, and maybe a business, in a way that was not robust to the future whims of HN's operators...then no, you should not post here. If you're like me and just want to fuck around during the day and post a few things, then it's totally fine. Searching for trivial proofs by contradiction in fields with lots of fuzzy variables is one of the worst habits of math/CS people.