<story><title>Host Your Own Content</title><url>https://rempel.world/posts/host-your-own.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cocktailpeanuts</author><text>&amp;quot;They monetize your content and you get nothing&amp;quot; is such a cliche and mislead rhetoric that it&amp;#x27;s kind of annoying. Especially because it always comes with some condescending tone telling people what to do implying they know better than the &amp;quot;dumb public&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;When people write on sites like Medium or Facebook or Twitter, they know exactly what they&amp;#x27;re getting into, thank you very much. They&amp;#x27;re not some idiots who get &amp;quot;tricked&amp;quot; into being taken advantage of. They still do it because they DO get something in return. And guess what? Your content is probably worth shit anyway. Just take a look at some of the popular posts on medium. They&amp;#x27;re just bullshit content and these people would have had no chance at getting that much attention in their life if it wasn&amp;#x27;t for Medium. I&amp;#x27;m not saying Medium is full of bullshit content (although most of them are), even the better quality content is not worth that much. They probably spent a couple of hours writing that, based on what they heard somewhere else. These effortless content should be taken at face value. They&amp;#x27;re just expressions. Sites like Medium provide a plaza where you can express yourself and get attention, but not all expressions are worth money. In fact most expressions are not worth it.&lt;p&gt;Do you really want to make money with content? Stop whining about how you can&amp;#x27;t make money with blogging, just think of blogging as a way to gain attention, and do something that&amp;#x27;s much more high value with the attention you aggregated, such as writing a book, building some tangible thing, or anything that &lt;i&gt;deserves&lt;/i&gt; to be not forgotten. Otherwise your content deserves to be forgotten.</text></comment>
<story><title>Host Your Own Content</title><url>https://rempel.world/posts/host-your-own.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joaodlf</author><text>This can be applied not just to writing... Making videos? Host them, why let Youtube monetise you? Steaming your video game playing? Host the streams, why let Twitch monetise you?&lt;p&gt;People use these services for 2 reasons:&lt;p&gt;* Ease of use (and typically free, unlike Ghost - which the author linked)&lt;p&gt;* Audience reach&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t use Medium for my own writing, I guess my goals towards my writing aren&amp;#x27;t to reach as many as possible, but for many that is one (if not the most, even if subconsciously) important reason to write&amp;#x2F;create videos&amp;#x2F;stream&amp;#x2F;open source software...</text></comment>