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Zambytetoday at 1:19 PM3 repliesview on HN

What do you mean "fully owned"? There is no mention of that in the post

Edit: I guess you mean the content itself is still on your machine if the services go away, and you can choose to host them elsewhere


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ingavtoday at 1:22 PM

By "fully owned," I mean that I control the entire stack:

- Content is just Markdown files in my local Obsidian vault

- Hugo builds the site locally - no dependency on external editors or platforms

- GitHub is just used for version control and deployment

- Cloudflare Pages handles static hosting, but I can move it elsewhere anytime

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intrasighttoday at 1:39 PM

I don't think there is a good term in the context of the Internet. Or offline for that matter. Even if you printed your blog and handed it out on street corners, for it to be "fully owned" would that mean you make your own ink and paper?

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lucideertoday at 1:32 PM

While "fully owned" is ambiguous, the only other term I can think of here would be "fully portable", which has other connotations, so it's probably the best term for this.

Would be nice to coin an unambiguous term for this as it's a useful design goal.