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by mnutt 2829 days ago
I also didn't know anything about micro.blog before now, but based on the article I assumed from the features offered that "creators own the content" actually means "creators own the relationship with the user" which seems pretty important. Worst case you could copy-and-paste your content to a different service, as long as you own the domain.
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Same here, never heard of micro.blog but the concept and business model seem sound.

Owning the things you post and having to host them yourself are two different things. The content is yours, the domains is yours, you pay for someone serving it for you. Hosting is not free and maintaining it is always a hassle a lot of savvy people will pay for a service in order to avoid.

Micro.blog seems to be open source, if at some point you don't want to pay any more, you can always get your data out, setup a server or a rpi, and restore your data. Nothing lost other than some quality time with some readmes.

While I agree with the spirit of what you’re saying, micro.blog is not open source.