The Open Web Is Dying

Re:The Open Web Is Dying by lowdose on Thursday April 30, 2020 @07:46AM (#23029813)

For a lot of people pushing on 3 buttons to create a facebook page is enormously satisfying and spending any more effort is ridiculous. The open web is disappearing because of the opportunity cost.

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Re:The Open Web Is Dying by ghaff on Thursday April 30, 2020 @08:07AM (#23029946)

That may be true but it's not that much more effort to create a hosted Wordpress site or to create a blog on Blogger. Arguably, those still lock you in a bit more than self-hosting Wordpress with your own domain, but the data is exportable and there is some migration effort associated with moving no matter what you do.

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Re:The Open Web Is Dying by HeadsUpHigh on Thursday April 30, 2020 @11:07AM (#23031630)

Yes it is. For starters I have no idea what any of these are and I probably need to input my credit card somewhere along the way.

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Re:The Open Web Is Dying by ghaff on Thursday April 30, 2020 @11:50AM (#23032168)

Actually you don't need a credit card for Blogger; it's a free Google service. And while people have beefs with Google as well, Blogger uses pretty much standard HTML if you want to export it.

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