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Re:It appears my Google account is slated for deletion by hossbeast on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:59AM (#15235907)
Are there any companies out there trying to make it easy for consumers to legitimately own/host all their own digital content?

If the price was reasonable people would go for it, as long as setup and maintenance is transparent (that's what the company's services help you achieve).

If the networks were federated .. like e.g. Mastodon ...

Re:It appears my Google account is slated for deletion by Stranger43 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:48AM (#15236305)
How would such a company avoid having the choice of not selling to people they don't want to be associated with.

And then we come to hosting which is a gray zone in most retail contracts actually offering usable upload mostly because of bandwidth concerns and do we really trust the likes of Comcast not to play dirty when put under external pressure in regards to unpopular speech.