Concentration and Centralisation Versus Aggregation or Syndication
Nate Graham, the person who spent years giving us all an invaluable digest of upcoming KDE features (based on ongoing developments), has shifted away from his own blog (https://pointieststick.com), which he only partly controls (WordPress.com is not WordPress; but he controls the domain) to https://blogs.kde.org (not planet!) and quoting Christine Hall, "he indicated that at some time in the future he might not be the person writing the weekly blog — at least he won’t be the only person writing it."
Even if he "won’t be the only person writing it", it makes sense to still publish in his personal site/domain. As a reminder, dot.kde.org basically committed suicide a few weeks ago:
https://blogs.kde.org is merely a component in the "planet". It can be as volatile as predecessors.
Mr. Graham's blog is already in KDE Planet (been there for years!), so what's the point outsourcing it to a project and site that he does not directly and fully govern? The Web, owing in part to social control media, is becoming more and more like this. As long as people fail to understand the importance of controlling one's own platform, they will lose a lot of data (or hard work).
My first Web site was in the 90s and in 2003 I worked to migrate everything I had written (in years prior) to my own domain. In a few days my WordPress blog turns 20 and almost every blog post I contributed to another site has vanished already (offline) because guardians of other sites do not value the work (and time) of people other than themselves.
Mr. Graham will hopefully continue to be very active in his own site. KDE has a history of burying old sites. Lots and lots of dead links. █
