[huebnerob]

If you're really interested in owning your own content, it's never been easier to spin up a site. What all these Twitter clones appear to actually be is political statements against the social media machine that miss the point entirely. I can talk to myself anywhere I want for free, what I really want to own is my audience. And that's a much harder problem to solve.

[DevNullDevice]

Again, I haven't heard of this place before, but from the article, it appears like they offer that through control of domain names?

Certainly there's an argument about the manually-curated feed, but don't know if that's what you're talking about?