Want Change? Work Together 🔁<p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quote</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> & <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Computers</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Infrastructure</span></a> etc</p><p>"Running infrastructure for yourself is hard...</p><p>Running infrastructure for others is exponentially harder."</p><p>💬 <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@localden" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>localden</span></a></span> <br>Page: <a href="https://den.dev/blog/be-a-property-owner-not-a-renter-on-the-internet/#1-have-your-own-property-on-the-web" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">den.dev/blog/be-a-property-own</span><span class="invisible">er-not-a-renter-on-the-internet/#1-have-your-own-property-on-the-web</span></a></p><p>Continued... (hashtags added for <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/keywords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>keywords</span></a>)</p><p>"As any forum moderator or administrator can attest, the sheer volume of <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spam</span></a>, <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abuse</span></a>, and just generally <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/trash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trash</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/behavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>behavior</span></a> can wear down even the most seasoned veterans of the .com era. </p><p>And that’s if we’re talking about <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/communities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communities</span></a> that <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/host" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>host</span></a> tens of thousands of users. Scale that to a few million and there won’t be enough hours in the day to either keep the servers running (stuff is costly too) or to monitor the content for anything potentially harmful or inappropriate.</p><p>For anyone that wants to start a <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a>, it’s a no-brainer that they should probably start somewhere where they can “<a href="https://qoto.org/tags/outsource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>outsource</span></a>” the hard things, like moderation and infrastructure, to someone who is an expert and has built-in mechanisms to handle everything in-house. Especially when the funds for this are at or around zero dollars. That’s a totally reasonable stance to take, and I absolutely get the rationale there.</p><p>Not only that, but a lot of the existing ecosystems rest on the shoulders of network effects. </p><p>Once everyone you care about is on <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Reddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reddit</span></a>, are you really going to be the only one not on Reddit and try to <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/bootstrap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bootstrap</span></a> your own little corner for a specific community? Probably not, and attracting people there would be much harder. Reddit is the one-stop-shop - I can go there for woodworking advice, but I can also chat in <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/local" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>local</span></a> communities, or communities around collecting <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/stamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stamps</span></a>, with the same account and within the same interface. Are you really going to post <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/photos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photos</span></a> of your fridge that you want to <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/sell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sell</span></a> on your blog and hope that in a year someone discovers it through a Google search? Of course not - you will go to <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Marketplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marketplace</span></a> or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Craigslist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Craigslist</span></a> and get it sold within a few days.</p><p>You, the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/user" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>user</span></a>, are going to go where most people are, because you’re optimizing for <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/solving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solving</span></a> your <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/problems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>problems</span></a>, such as finding like-minded individuals or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/selling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selling</span></a> the fridge quickly and getting it out of your garage to make room for a table saw. </p><p>Most people are this way - they don’t care who or how maintains or runs a community or network as long as that place solves the problems they set out to solve. When that <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/goal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goal</span></a> overlaps with the company’s desire to make money, you end up in somewhat of a goldilocks zone, but that’s typically a short-lived experience with <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/modern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>modern</span></a> services. More on that shortly."</p><p>... 💬 Continue reading more here: <br><a href="https://den.dev/blog/be-a-property-owner-not-a-renter-on-the-internet/#1-have-your-own-property-on-the-web" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">den.dev/blog/be-a-property-own</span><span class="invisible">er-not-a-renter-on-the-internet/#1-have-your-own-property-on-the-web</span></a></p>