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> People also got lazy, why bother hosting your own website when you can just upload to Instagram ?

Why bother changing your car oil when you can take it to the service?

Why bother cooking your own meal when you can just go to the restaurant?

Why bother sewing your own dress when you can just go to the mall?

It's not lazyness, it's convenience. Internet just got mainstream and popular, so people lacking time, interest or skills to create their own websites just use pre-built solutions. It's how everything works in real life.

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You own your car (modulo spyware and remote shutdown) after an oil change.

The restaurant does not take away the meal from you after you ordered it, because you are not woke enough.

If you buy a dress, you own it.

On Wordpress, Instagram and YouTube you are just a sharecropper with no rights.

Yeah, if I'm a writer, is it "lazy" of me to also not want to manually do the formatting, cover, layouts and print work, as opposed to just sending a manuscript to an editor? It's not necessarily a bad thing that the web has evolved to the point that people who want to produce content for it, for the most part, only have to worry about the content and not the infrastructure.

> Internet just got mainstream and popular, so people lacking time, interest or skills to create their own websites just use pre-built solutions.

They don't lack any of time or skills. Take the example of websites of local sport clubs: they all had a proper website with all info and news and stuff. Now they haven't any more, they've changed to a shitty Facebook page with everything mixed together into an incredible mess. (By the way, the traditional website is typically still running fine without maintenance, it just hasn't been updated since around 2015-2017.)

I don't think the people from your small town random sport club, who built and ran the site in the 2000s, had special computers skills or time compared to those of today.

Most local sports leagues (and some clubs) still run their own websites (and have systems that support mobile apps). I find the online presence far richer these days where little league teams collaborate attendance, schedules, practices this way.

I think this “everyone got lazy” is overblown. Yes some folks are lazy, but they were the folks that used Microsoft Frontpage in 1998 :)

You know what happens when I eat at restaurants though ? I lose money and get fat, maybe diabetes and or high blood pressure.

I understand the sentiment, but convenience isn’t always the right thing for us.

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