The #indieweb is all about hosting things yourself, but actually I find doing so to be enormously stressful. Sysadmin-ing is a profession.
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The #indieweb is all about owning your identity and being in control. You don't have to self-host to do that!
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Hm, okay good point. But hosting on other people's sites is a loss of control isn't it?
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Replying to @samwilson
As long as you have the ability to pick up your content and move it elsewhere and keep the same URLs you're in control

Aug 19, 2017 · 4:38 AM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk
The flip side is URL permanence: my content on Figshare, Flickr, etc. is *probably* going to outlast my personally-hosted content.
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