One of the very best reasons for maintaining a blog in Tinderbox, and paying for hosting (almost wrote "self-hosting," but that wouldn't be accurate), is that I am completely and utterly immune from the inevitable drama that accompanies "platforms."

A significant amount of the text that passes through my subscriptions in NetNewsWire deals with "federation," Threads, Bluesky, X, Wordpress, Mastodon, and probably any other platform you could name.

I mean, it's like being vaccinated. I'm exposed to all this sturm und drang around this bullshit; but I don't really care. I don't get infected. Apart from the wasted time and bandwidth.

These platforms are like HOAs.

They suck.

("But they preserve our property values!")

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 08:23 Friday, 20 December 2024