[BobaFloutist]

Facebook, Twitter, and Patreon are, however, walled gardens.

It's actually intensely frustrating how many small businesses (restaurants, bars, etc) have a website that's abandoned at best, and post all their updates on Instagram, almost as frustrating as when public agencies update on Twitter but not on their website. This is a clear downgrade for the public.

[mistercow]

Yeah, I think that the motivation behind the article is “it would be a social good for there to be more independent websites”, and that’s probably true, but it’s academic.

If you tell someone they should run their own website, their response is generally not going to be, as the post suggests, “how?” It’s going to be “why?”, and if your best answer is “because it’s better for society”, good luck convincing them.