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Blogging Platform Posterous To Shut Down April 30

Posted by timothy on from the cloud-rains-on-your-parade dept.

New submitter Mike Allton writes with the announcement from Posterous that the blogging platform will close at the end of April, after being acquired last year by Twitter. "It's been suggested that people should use platforms like Posterous or Google+ for their blog, and I think this is a perfect example of why that's a bad idea. When you use someone else's platform, you don't own your content and you don't have control over the platform. Do you have a Posterous account? What will you do with all your posts and content?"

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  1. Who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nevere heard of them.
    Guess nothing of value will be lost.

  2. Did you *read* TFA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The article gives specific instructions how to save all your blog content. In some cases, move it to another host. But you must do it before they shutdown. So the problem is ...??

  3. Re:Friendica by mcgrew · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, own your own WEBSITE. That's the only way to be sure. The downside isn't cost, you can get hosting for $15 per year. The downside is nobody will read it -- but they don't anyway.

    Me, I just use slashdot. It's good enough for my purposes.

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