Link: ‘Where I Fit on the Web’

I was nodding my head in agreement the entire time I was reading this Jonathan Poritsky article. If you want to own your destiny as a writer, you need to own the platform you write on.

Fears of platforms changing out from under me aren’t unfounded. I hosted this site on Tumblr up until a few months ago. Tumblr was constantly breaking existing behavior, modifying code, outright ignoring settings. When things went wrong, I had zero recourse – support emails went unanswered as often as not. Whatever benefit they provided as a platform, it wasn’t worth it anymore.

I was lucky that tools exist to transition from Tumblr to other platforms. I won’t tie my content to another monolithic company and count on being lucky again.