@GhostOnTheHalfShell @jon @pluralistic
I am struck by the sudden realization that Bacchus's First Rule (which I had come to view as increasingly obsolete in the social media age) remains fully operative, inasmuch as "your own server that you control" can now be, or include, a fully-federated social media presence.
https://www.erosblog.com/2013/06/11/bacchus-first-rule-of-the-internet/
I have been nattering about it this morning, so how about a repost?
https://www.erosblog.com/2013/06/11/bacchus-first-rule-of-the-internet/
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/
ErosBlog Bacchus has moved!
