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ploum

Each new generation on the web needs to learn that there’s no such thing as a permanent web identity on a commercial web service.

The only long-term solution to maintain your identity is:
1. your own domain name
2. Your own website/blog
3. Several backups

Everything else is temporary. Your accounts on myspace, facebook, medium, twitter, google plus, youtube, tiktok, mastodon will one day disappear or become useless.

You don’t have a "community" on those websites. Only ephemeral discussions.

18 Nov 2022 at 9:05 | Open on mamot.fr
21 comments
sebsauvage
ploum

Want to be verified on the whole Internet?

Buy a domain name.

You will end up paying 8$ a year instead of per month and keep your identity for as long as you live.

18 Nov 2022 at 9:14 | Open on mamot.fr
Lightning Bjornsson
Freyja 🏴‍☠️:anqueer: :anfem:

@ploum and you are easier to dox. (trust me I have a domain name)

18 Nov 2022 at 9:20 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Freeben
Freyja 🏴‍☠️:anqueer: :anfem:

@Freeben @ploum ever heard of Whois history? While it's true for new domain, it's wrong for old domains

18 Nov 2022 at 10:27 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Freeben

@Freyja @ploum I don't know about other TLDs, but I've held several .fr for a few years now, and the WHOIS informations has always looked something like this:
18 Nov 2022 at 10:30 | Open on mamot.fr
Freyja 🏴‍☠️:anqueer: :anfem:

@Freeben @ploum give me one, if the whois data ever showed clear data then masked I will be able to find them

18 Nov 2022 at 10:32 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Freeben

@Freyja @ploum you can take a stab at freeben666.fr ;-)

18 Nov 2022 at 10:35 | Open on mamot.fr
Freeben

@Freyja @ploum Only service I found that seems to have historical data about that domain is DomainIQ, but I don't have a subscription, so I can't check exactly what they have archived. Maybe you'll be able to find something interesting ;-)

18 Nov 2022 at 10:44 | Open on mamot.fr
Michel Labrie 404
Jan Adriaenssens

@ploum I have bought so many domain names. Too many. But they're mine. My precioussss… 💍

18 Nov 2022 at 9:29 | Open on mastodon.social
Gilles Gagniard

@ploum That's what I do as well. But the barrier to entry for non-technical people is real ...

18 Nov 2022 at 9:36 | Open on toot.gagniard.org
Severák

@ploum community are the people, not the website itself. Community can outlive provider, but of course it changes a lot in the time.

18 Nov 2022 at 9:15 | Open on tiny.tilde.website
Zezin :debian: :tp:

@ploum
>everything else is temporary
That's good. Doesn't live out traces and doesn't give the opportunity for people to hold your long gone past against you.

>You don’t have a "community" on those websites.
And how does a personal website gives access to a community? (not charged question, genuine curiosity)

18 Nov 2022 at 9:27 | Open on fosstodon.org
ploum

@Zezin : firstly, it gives you an identity that you can use in many communities.

Secondly, if you start publishing regularly and reading others, you will find out that, yes, people read you, people react, send you emails, share what you write.

There’s no immediate feedback, it takes more time. But it is also a lot deeper for both side.

18 Nov 2022 at 9:39 | Open on mamot.fr
Zezin :debian: :tp:

@ploum got it.

Btw, a little off topic, but for hosting websites, would you self-hosting or buy a VPS?

What a server for things that are a bit more reliable on uptime, like an email server, or bandwith, like some kind media sharing service?

18 Nov 2022 at 9:45 | Open on fosstodon.org
Anant Shrivastava aka anantshri
Mathijs Booden

@ploum The items in the bullet points are also temporary.

18 Nov 2022 at 11:52 | Open on mastodon.nl
Hippo 🍉

@ploum I've come round to this and am planning to set up a family domain soon!

18 Nov 2022 at 12:32 | Open on fosstodon.org
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