This work paves the way for infrastructure & devices to post to their own Known site. The #indieweb of things? https://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2015/03/26/post-to-your-known-site-from-the-command-line/
Why developers should have their own site where they represent themselves and their work: http://alistapart.com/column/the-love-you-make
Outsourcing your core business to Facebook is so obviously suicidal it's unreal.
News outlets are splitting their core businesses from the act of making journalism. Facebook then effectively runs the former.
By outsourcing news hosting to Facebook, outlets are handing over control of monetization & audience analytics. Their sales & relationships.
The reason news outlets typically have those JavaScript assets on their websites is for monetization and audience analytics.
Presumably that's because the reader has already loaded all of Facebook's JavaScript etc, or is using Facebook's app.
So, I'm interested in the technical implications of the claim that hosting news stories on Facebook will make them faster to load.
In a world where audience translates directly to revenue, publishers need a way to own their relationships while finding broader reach.
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@mapkyca @adammathes Absolutely, but the bottom line is literally this: if it can pay for my rent and my food, I can keep doing it.
@adammathes @mapkyca He absolutely was. Sadly most people are drawn by the other meaning of "free".
Thinking that @mapkyca and I should resurrect our "Open Sores" podcast where we argue about open source.
@adammathes It totally is! @mapkyca and I discussed that the other day. I find the literal word "free" troublesome for marketing reasons ...
@mapkyca Right. That's the biggest reason I founded this company, and I'm determined to make it work, on that playground, to show it can.
@mapkyca Of course we did. It was a series of informed decisions based on economic, technological and largely political realities.
@mapkyca I don't think you can effect change by ignoring realities. You've got to be pragmatic, recognize those choices, and work with them.
@mapkyca I actually think the biggest impact we could make is making a respectful business be hugely financially successful.
@mapkyca They are - but choices made. My job is not to change the minds of all businesses, but to work in the framework of that reality.
@mapkyca Right. My point is that it's naive to not take this business reality into account.
@mapkyca It's a business decision. Some company constitutions - B-Corps, for example - allow for other factors but most don't.
@nicolepank Man, I hate it when support is a premium feature. Figures.
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