Maybe it’s better to host your own. That’s the thinking coming from a growing number of early technology adopters as service after service goes down, sells out or otherwise frustrates the users who have published their content online only to see the tools they use become broken or less desirable.
The prospect of a distributed, interoperable, self-hosted network of publishing, reading and discussion tools is nothing new - but the idea is gaining a lot more support as more people react to recent news like FriendFeed’s sale to Facebook, Tr.im’s up and down and Twitter’s denial of service attacks. The tide may not be turning, but there’s sure to be some new waves of innovation that come out of this period of frustration.
Necessity might be the mother of invention, but being pissed off that something doesn’t work is the kick in the pants that gets things moving.
I’ve said for a while that after our period of tumult, we hit a plateau where we could really start to figure stuff out. With that foundation-groundwork prepared the next wave of cool stuff will be coming.
