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Comment by Zambyte

5 days ago

What do you mean "fully owned"? There is no mention of that in the post

Edit: I guess you mean the content itself is still on your machine if the services go away, and you can choose to host them elsewhere

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ingav  5 days ago

By "fully owned," I mean that I control the entire stack:

- Content is just Markdown files in my local Obsidian vault

- Hugo builds the site locally - no dependency on external editors or platforms

- GitHub is just used for version control and deployment

- Cloudflare Pages handles static hosting, but I can move it elsewhere anytime

intrasight  5 days ago

I don't think there is a good term in the context of the Internet. Or offline for that matter. Even if you printed your blog and handed it out on street corners, for it to be "fully owned" would that mean you make your own ink and paper?

  • jprjr_  5 days ago

    So I agree in the sense that, you're always going to rely on something. Even if you're hosting on hardware you own at your house, using your own self-signed SSL certificates, you're still relying on an internet connection from some company.

    But, I think using the term "fully-owned" to refer to pushing up to GitHub, then deploying to Cloudflare Pages is definitely not "fully-owned"

    • ingav  5 days ago

      What I meant by "fully-owned" is really about owning the content and the workflow: everything lives locally in plain text, versioned in Git, and built with open tools. I can move it to any host without being locked into a platform or losing anything.

      You're right that hosting on GitHub and Cloudflare isn't infrastructure ownership. I should’ve been more precise with the wording.

  • angra_mainyu  5 days ago

    "Vendor-agnostic" maybe? It's not perfect but I get where OP is coming from. Personally, the use of the term is completely reasonable.

  • throwaway519  5 days ago

    It would mean you owned the ink and paper.

    The OP's fully owned is analogous to someone else doing the printing for the privelege of spying on your readers.

lucideer  5 days ago

While "fully owned" is ambiguous, the only other term I can think of here would be "fully portable", which has other connotations, so it's probably the best term for this.

Would be nice to coin an unambiguous term for this as it's a useful design goal.