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> Even otherwise, the fact that some of them may not exist at some point in the future is a terrible reason to not use them at all ... I'm pretty confident that
by CarelessExpert 6y ago
> Even otherwise, the fact that some of them may not exist at some point in the future is a terrible reason to not use them at all ... I'm pretty confident that most of the services he is complaining about will last longer than his own blog post.
I can't say I share your confidence.
Take Google Groups as an example.
Were it not for archival work being done by various volunteers, the content on Usenet was at real threat of vanishing from the internet.
This is hardly unique. We've seen the same thing happen with Geocities and Myspace, for example. Another poster also mentioned G+, which is an excellent recent case.
Is this a reason to not use these platforms at all? I don't think so.
But it is a reason to retain your own copies of the things you care about, hence why, for my own blog, I follow the POSSE (Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) pattern:
https://indieweb.org/POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE
- iggldiggl 6y ago> Take Google Groups as an example. And speaking of that, because of purported spam problems a number of Usenet groups (and especially their archives) currently aren't available at all via Google Groups.
- technojunkie 6y agoSolving the groups problem would be a game changer. I can't recreate the same kind of group value that Facebook Groups provides or Google Groups provided anywhere else. Maybe it's impossible, but hopefully some day we can get to a point where social media silos are not necessary, with easy to set up and use personal sites/apps that use Indieweb principles. The Indieweb movement is excellent for this but needs a lot more developer contributions to make this dent a reality.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoLook what has just been released : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24906218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24906218