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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 01:47:05 JST Evan Prodromou

   I am a No, but. I might do this if it were an invitation to participate in a group blog on a topic I'm interested in -- say, for my employer or a club I belong to. Otherwise, I don't see myself using someone else's blog for my own self-expression. Too dependent on someone else. They might shut it down, or change it significantly. WordPress, in particular, is available free of charge from so many providers, I can't see why I would piggyback on someone else's instead of getting my own.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 01:47:48 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I'd contrast using Mastodon. So many people have their Fediverse presence on someone else's server. It seems really precarious.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 04:38:39 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • lori

     @lori this is actually very possible with ActivityPub.

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     lori (lori@cambrian.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 04:38:42 JST lori

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     @evan It seems almost like a landlord-tenant relationship. I think peer-to-peer networking would be nice, but the structure of the internet practically requires a static IP to have any kind of locatable presence. The host-or-be-hosted thing seems to function almost like an entry barrier. It would be nice to be able to send some kind of bat signal into the internet that would be latched on to by members of the same network, informing them that one of their peers has come online.