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As more and more “curation” happens with the big providers, it’s fun to see people rediscover the benefits of running their own sites that they control. I’d lo
by EricE 6y ago
As more and more “curation” happens with the big providers, it’s fun to see people rediscover the benefits of running their own sites that they control.
I’d love to see more distributed models around forming and maintaining communities start to pop up. A distributed directory similar to DNS that no one entity totally controls pointing to independent content publishers.
It’s time for the Internet to get back more on the distributed side of things, especially since the modern equivalent of a nuclear attack is a large site just up and banning someone for a vague TOS violation with no human to appeal to unless you get lucky in shaming them enough on Twitter to respond. Yeah, I want my livelihood dependent on that service model.
- marban 6y agoI did the same thing right from the start with my newsletter* — referral engine, editor, archives, mail stuff, etc. Nothing worse than building a massive audience on the back of substack & co. * https://briefingday.com https://briefingday.com
- toomuchtodo 6y agoHave a blog post or other documentation on your endeavors to own your destiny to share with other content creators? I think there's enormous value in communicating to those folks the value prop of what you describe.
- marban 6y agoI guess your handle would be the reason why not — but will consider it ;)
- toomuchtodo 6y agoI feel you :) Appreciate it!
- chrisweekly 6y ago+1 for this! GP wrote "Nothing worse than building a massive audience on the back of substack & co." and I'd value a "here's why, and (esp) HOW to avoid that route"
- kmf 6y agoNot parent commenter, but Ghost is a pretty great way to “own your stack” - custom domain, software is open-source, supports paid memberships, and it can send blog posts as newsletters. (No association with Ghost either - just a happy user) I wrote a blog post on how to accomplish a Stratechery-style newsletter/blog with paid memberships on my blog[1] — you can hook into Zapier so there’s lots of opportunity to build a full community around Ghost’s built-in membership system, in case you want to send Slack invites, add them to a Mailchimp newsletter, etc. [1]: https://www.mailinglisthackers.com/creating-a-member-supported-blog-using-ghost-and-stripe/ https://www.mailinglisthackers.com/creating-a-member-support...
- hirako2000 6y agoHosting on shopify. Ipfs, tor/onions are giving publishers total control.
- dewey 6y ago> Ipfs, tor/onions are giving publishers total control. Total control and also no customers.
- hinkley 6y agoI've wondered if there's a middle ground between moderation and curation where I 'follow' a set of people and I mostly see what they already liked. The grey area between 'I disagree strongly with this sentiment' and "this is wrong and nobody should see it" plays out everywhere, even here. There are some critics who you trust in most genres but not one. Being able to see the 'best of' that is the union of things people chose instead of the intersection of things they did not reject is an experiment I'd like to at least observe. What we have a lot of now is anybody can submit, and it's up to the moderators to cull the bad stuff. That's really cool when a site is small, but eventually it's just way too much stuff, and the moderators are always the bad cops. If I 'follow' someone, they get to be a good cop. Effectively it's retweeting without Twitter.