I had to laugh when I saw this headline and then read about why a platform like Substack is *just* like having your own platform…
“You need to have your own corner of the internet, a place where you can build a home, on your own land, with assets you control.
Our system gives creators ownership. With Substack, you have your own property to build on: content you own, a URL of your choosing, a website for your work, and a mailing list of your subscribers that you can export and take with you at any time.”
Substack is great. I read many newsletters there and thought about moving over some of my own stuff. However, it is a platform just like Facebook or X or TikTok. Yes, you can point your own domain name using a C Record there. That does not make it yours.
I pay for this server and while I do “rent” the domain name samharrelson.com, I’ve removed as many middlemen from the equation as I can.
True web independence is having a site / blog on a server that you ultimately control.