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As more and more social publishing platforms decide to sell user content to the hypercapitalist hyperfunded AI data ingestion machines, I'm seeing people in agonies over feeling the need to delete, for example, a beloved Tumblr blog with a decade's effort invested.

I feel their pain too keenly to say this at their faces, but all I can think of is my first rule. I coined it before this kind of AI was a thing, but that doesn't make me wrong:

http://www.erosblog.com/2013/06/11/bacchus-first-rule-of-the-internet/

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Bacchus's First Rule Of The Internet - ErosBlog: The Sex Blog

Bacchus's First Rule Of The Internet: Anything worth doing on the internet is worth doing on your own server that you control.
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See also: "Never build your house on someone else's land"

http://www.erosblog.com/2022/02/07/someone-elses-land/


"Never Build Your House On Someone Else's Land" - ErosBlog: The Sex Blog

Last week Facebook had a terrible earnings call and lost a whole bunch of its market cap. They forgot Bacchus's First Rule. They "went mobile" and forgot Apple and Google make the rules there. Oopsie!...
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I am not so vain as to think those toots are about me specifically, but I've seen some commentary to the effect that now is the wrong time to talk about self-hosting and POSSE publishing, and I can't agree. Yes it's hard, yes it's always too late for someone experiencing pain on a social publishing platform to hear these ideas while they are in pain, but these moments when capital takes its gloves off are also the ONLY times when the true cost of "free platforms" becomes impossible to dispute.
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