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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 jb on Monday April 30 2018, @06:41AM
Nice straw man.
If you host your own at home (or more likely at your office), you'd be silly not to use multiple links to independent upstream ISPs (and if one gets bought by another, be sure to change the one that got acquired).
As I read it, the OP's advice was not so much about relying on nobody at all (which is impossible if one is to remain part of civilsed society), but rather is about not relying on any middle-men (who by definition are unnecessary).
It's not such bad advice, but probably could be put better as the age-old "eliminate all single points of failure".