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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 bobthecimmerian on Monday April 30 2018, @03:01PM
On top of all the excellent reasons you state, I'll add two more:
1. If I run a website on a hosting provider, I pay them directly for the service. When Youtube cuts channel ad revenue, or Facebook or Twitter block some application, or Apple blocks some application from the iOS app store, in almost all cases the company makes more money by screwing the user or partner than they lose. A hosting provider doesn't have any similar financial benefit from screwing some customers, if they just cut off the customers they lose revenue.
2. Something you alluded to but did not explicitly state is that the hosting market has competition. If I don't like AWS I can go to Digital Ocean, or GCE, or Linode, Vultr, Scaleway, even (ha!) Microsoft Azure. The market is loaded with competition. Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube are effectively monopolies so when they screw a channel/page/application partner that partner has no alternative available except giving up on whatever it was they were trying to do.