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Comment by charcircuit

17 hours ago

TikTok, Instagram, X, etc. These platforms will host you for free and will distribute updates to people, including potential customers via the algorithm.

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LikesPwsh  16 hours ago

Those are no longer useful as a "public square" because of the increasingly walled garden design.

otherme123  16 hours ago

Funny that I can't barely access any of those just because I don't have an account. Plus Facebook. They show me almost nothing and push their shitty app to nausea. And I am sure the "site" owners get zero info on how many clients they are losing for being behind that fence.

  • charcircuit  16 hours ago

    Then make an account. Billions of people have already done so. Cloudflare, or AWS, or any other server host also requires an account too.

    • kbenson  15 hours ago

      Pretty sure they're referring to their usage as a potential content consumer, not content creator. You don't need a cloudflare or AWS or any other service account (usually) to be an end user of a site that utilizes those. Increasingly it's hard to view any content on the social media platforms without an account.

sva_  16 hours ago

I'm not sure just skipping the scraping by providing your data directly for harvesting is the solution