Post #1917762
2026-02-10 13:40 UTC
@detours_anachroniques@piaille.fr @oblomov@sociale.network @NIGHTEN@hi.nighten.fr @doriane@post.lurk.org The following is all my opinion:
Part of it is the (real or perceived) technical aspect: making your own website is more complex than setting up an account on a platform. Also, managing your own website, that is more or less custom, is harder and more expensive, because it's not standard.
Another thing is discoverability/aggregation: search engines have been somewhat reliable for only a small window of time in modern history, while on a platform you have a unique handle (yeah, I know, URLs could work, but people would have to pay for dns), and the algorithm "may" push you to your audience.
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@bovaz@misskey.social 2026-02-10 13:42
@detours_anachroniques@piaille.fr @oblomov@sociale.network @NIGHTEN@hi.nighten.fr @doriane@post.lurk.org the thing that always really bothered me in the past 20 or so years of the internet is that a lot of these social networks should have been browser extensions, rather then massive multinational data black holes.
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@detours_anachroniques@piaille.fr 2026-02-10 13:45
@oblomov @doriane @NIGHTEN @bovaz But then again you shut yourself up from anyone who isn't on said platforms, + everything is in the "may" 🥲 With the rise of AI slop on the one hand, and the rise of fascist tech bros on the other, it'll soon be useless to maintain an account if you're not a white cishet male right-winger...