Comment on Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year)

SrMono@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Seriously how damn hard is it for an IT enthusiast to host their own blog.

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  • ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Many do but it’s a nightmare for SEO. When people use Substack or Medium it’s because they have built in social network that allows strangers to easily find your blog. Sadly independent blogs don’t really make money unless you are already famous with a network to follow you.

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    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It would be cool to make some kind of open source components you add to a blog to suggest other blogs you might be interested in. If you use it on your site you would show up on other peoples blogs. There could be tags or something to keep the content relevant.

      I wonder if anything like that exists. Probably too easy to abuse

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      • wibble@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sounds like web rings in the late 90s

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      • atmorous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        This is what Bluesky does but we should take that idea and do that ourselves as well for not just a Substack decentralized alternative but also for Amazon, and Facebook decentralized alternatives as well

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• tux0r@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You simply can’t get around LinkedIn, GitHub, YouTube, Medium, Substack and so on if you want to stay connected.

  “Can’t”. 🤦‍♂️

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  • SrMono@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Unless of course your content is original and you want to foster the alternatives instead of further cementing the problematic platforms.

    Sure, the choice is rather ideological than economical, but not working on the transition (like using all platforms in parallel in order to someday fade away from the problematic ones) is just lazy.

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  • nightlily@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    At some point you have to ask who you are staying connected to

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  • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    LinkedIn connects you with fuck all. It’s all just LLM posts on there, it’s ridiculous.

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And they cite Vivaldi as their go-to browser. European, sure, but not open source and based on Chromium. I’m always skeptical of Vivaldi users; they seem to value nostalgia (remember Opera?) over facts.

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  • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Some of us are pretty ok.

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    • pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Man I just love the browser and its festure. But it does help that they are EU and have some pretty well know browser veterans as founders. Also they are quite supportive in their forums and I feel they try to be as transparent as possible in their blog posts. E.g. they made clear to support Manifest V2 as long as it is somehow possible while also keep on improving their builtin ad blocker (but we all know nothing can keep up with uBlock)

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