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, @03:03PM
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).