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"We should all own the content we're creating, rather than just posting to third-party content silos." Isn't this just centralizing and stream-lining the same
by ugexe 11y ago
"We should all own the content we're creating, rather than just posting to third-party content silos."
Isn't this just centralizing and stream-lining the same process they claim you should be avoiding?
- kyle_wm 11y agoWhat makes you say that? It's about posting your own content on your own domain, very much not about centralizing nor streamlining.
- tombrossman 11y agoIt is definitely about centralizing, on your own domain. Nothing wrong with that but the distinction is to have total control and not rely on a third-party silo. This takes some extra effort but is totally worth it.
- joshbuddy 11y agoI think that value proposition is very different for different people. For technical people, maybe it's a good idea. For non-technical people, I fear the indie web is very much out of reach.
- groks 11y ago1 billion people posting to Facebook is centralised. 1 billion people posting to 1 billion dot-whatever's is decentralised. From one perspective, moving your Instagram, Twitter and Facebook posts under your own domain is a kind of centralisation, but it's the least interesting perspective, because so what? The other perspective is that Facebook's (etc.) centralised service determines what you can do, what you see, who can see what you do, and ultimately because we're all products of our environment, defines you. And isn't that kind of sad?
- adrusi 11y agoTo clarify, I think what you mean is services being centralized around the user, as opposed to what other commentors seem to be interpreting which is users centralized around services (the current state of the web).