Facebook rulez, until years ago, I discovered I cannot say what I want (respecting people, for sure): some words are not permitted in groups name, and even some posts can be flagged as "inappropriate" by some AI.
I understand why Facebook need to do it, but sometimes it limit my expressiveness (I am Italian, and my language has a very huge set of synonyms and nuances of terms).
So I have kept my Blog alive and kicking in the last 20 years and it is my place where:
- I can write what I want and I take my responsibilities
- NO one can ban me from by blog
- Users can comment and I decide the moderation rules. And yes I own my site comments.
- No advertising I do not want. My pages are super fast
- Nice printing capabilities
- I can link other blogs/article I like
- I store images on my own, to avoid to loose external image links.
- I get tracebacks in comments.
On the downside:
- Video bandwidth can be a pain if you do not want advertising on it
- I must pay for it (but for 5 bucks / month it is a good deal for the freedom to say what do you want).
- I got less traction in respect of Facebook.
I understand why Facebook need to do it, but sometimes it limit my expressiveness (I am Italian, and my language has a very huge set of synonyms and nuances of terms).
So I have kept my Blog alive and kicking in the last 20 years and it is my place where: - I can write what I want and I take my responsibilities - NO one can ban me from by blog - Users can comment and I decide the moderation rules. And yes I own my site comments. - No advertising I do not want. My pages are super fast - Nice printing capabilities - I can link other blogs/article I like - I store images on my own, to avoid to loose external image links. - I get tracebacks in comments.
On the downside: - Video bandwidth can be a pain if you do not want advertising on it - I must pay for it (but for 5 bucks / month it is a good deal for the freedom to say what do you want). - I got less traction in respect of Facebook.