Comment by 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?

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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.