I’ve been looking at how walled off my content has been in the various silos of technology companies like Google, Amazon, etc. Lately, I’ve been feeling the same way about Automattic (the company which hosts this blog and Tumblr, a micro-blogging service that I use).
I had shared a couple of videos about the IndieWeb in the fifteenth weekly notes in April 2023. This book seems to feed on this feeling of our content being locked in these silos.
Derek Sivers also spoke about this (that he calls, technical independence) on episode 668 of The Tim Ferriss Show. He then fleshed it out in a blog post on his personal blog.
Parallel Spirals 