Users leave big platforms for self-hosting and small networks
What happened
An October 3 report on the Hacker News front page looks at users leaving platforms including Reddit, WordPress, Discord, GitHub, Codeberg and Photoshop. More of them are moving to personal sites, self-hosted apps and smallweb projects like Gopher and Gemini. The stated reasons include pricing changes, content used for AI training, ownership changes, policy shifts, and a feeling that platforms no longer build for them. The author notes these users are not moving to bigger platforms, but to smaller, more controllable ones.
Written by AI from the coverage · updated 1 hour ago
Coverage
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- Hacker News front pageEveryone's Packing Up
越来越多用户正在离开 Reddit、WordPress、Discord、GitHub、Codeberg、Photoshop 等平台，转向个人网站、自托管应用和 Gopher、Gemini 等 smallweb。原因包括定价变化、内容被用于 AI 训练、新所有者、新政策，以及平台不再为用户而建的感觉。作者指出，这些离开者并非投向更大的平台，而是选择更小、更可控的去处。
Heat over time
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