Stephen Downes

As wiuth Doc Searles, so with me: "This blog is mine... I publish it on my own, and syndicate it through RSS. This puts me in a publishing ecosystem that is wide open and full of interop. If you want to know more about how the blogging ecosystem works, read Dave." Substack, by contrast, "is a social media app... My instant response was a mix of Huh? and Yuck." While social media (properly so-called) attracts many more people, nothing gives me the freedom and flexibility that hosting my own website does.