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Steven Saus has written a blog post about why you should never rely on social media. In his latest post on the topic he points out that:
[...] If you don’t personally own your website and data, you don’t have a website or data. Quite simply, you cannot rely on someone else for you to have a website, platform, or social media presence.
[...] I now know, in my gut, how fragile my access to the services Google, Facebook, and Twitter supply are.
Because – and I cannot stress this enough – my ban from G+ was due to something I supposedly posted to G+ when I was unable to post to G+. Hell, I still don’t know what got me in trouble in the first place.
Regardless, my trust is broken, and my role as product has been made painfully clear.
G+ is used as the example, but the same principles apply to the other social control media.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday April 30 2018, @03:26AM (2 children)
The point is, if you are trusting Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Geocities, MySpace, Dropbox, Apple, or any other major corporation with your key revenue model, you are being a fool. Anybody who looks at the TOS can realize this. For example, a lot of the complaints about Google seem to amount to "I was relying on ad revenue to do my thing, and now I can't because won't let me show ads anymore." But the problem there lies in large part on the first part of that sentence, not the second part. And no, there isn't a player in that kind of game that's not going to grab as much from your pocket as they can. If you want to make stuff for a living, you're going to have to create your own tech infrastructure for it sooner or later.
TL;DR: If you get into bed with giant dicks, you're going to get screwed.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday April 30 2018, @03:27AM
Darn filters. Revised sentence:
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Monday April 30 2018, @03:03PM
I responded to this a bit upthread: https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=25343&page=1&cid=673475#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] "The point is, if you are trusting Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Geocities, MySpace, Dropbox, Apple, or any other major corporation with your key revenue model, you are being a fool. "
Those companies collectively own a colossal market. So if you don't jump into bed with them they can't screw you, but there are not that many other profitable beds left (pardon the mixed metaphor).