BenJ Posted June 21, 2014 Posted June 21, 2014 So I would like get my own website up. I'm travelling abroad in search of a greater degree of freedom and a place to settle down, and I throw in libertarian discussion from time to time. Creating my own website with my own domain would not be a problem, as I am a web developer by trade at the moment. But since liberty.me just launched recently, I'm wondering if I should take advantage of that ecosystem for publishing my content. On the plus side, I wouldn't have to put a single thought into design, which would would be nice. Also, the biggest potential upside would be possible cross traffic from other liberty.me sites. That should definitely not be overlooked. I'm somewhat concerned about joining the site ever since Jeffery Tucker threw his considerable clout into the wrong side of the ridiculous 'thick/thin' 'brutalist/humanitarian' debate. That being said, I probably shouldn't be too concerned with all of his personal beliefs when evaluating the platform. The subscription rate is about the same as what I would pay for hosting my own site anyway, but at the same time I would be getting a subdomain on a blogging platform, which is free elsewhere. Is having .liberty after your subdomain worth paying for? Another concern for me is the fact that all interaction seems to be behind a pay wall. Why aren't the social networking aspects of the site free? Why would I want to pay for the privilege of signing up for another libertarian echo chamber? I suppose its nice to be in a community with other content creators, but it just seems like the site is shooting itself in the foot by not opening itself up as a social media platform for the public. Along the same lines, Tucker mentioned that the publishing site you get is a full Wordpress install, but I have yet to see any liberty.me sites with comments enabled for the public. Other content creators can comment, but no Disqus? No Facebook comments? Nothing? I suppose you could get your public comments by posting your content to Facebook or something like that, but it seems like a serious limitation to omit that completely for people wanting their own publishing site. Anyway, those are some of my concerns. I do think it would be cool to be a part of liberty.me, but I'm having a tough time committing to it given the unnecessary limitations as I see them. What is you opinion of liberty.me? Anyone using it at the moment?
luminescent Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 In case you haven't seen this yet (it was posted after you started this thread), Ethan Glover wrote an article about the pros and cons of Liberty.me.This is the thread he started about it:https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/40562-libertyme-a-scam/?hl=liberty.meIn there he links to his article. By the way, thanks for writing in so much detail about it, I'm finding it useful.
JonnyD Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 Both? Your own domain, hosting Wordpress. Liberty.me, post only excerpt with a link back to your blog.
ribuck Posted June 28, 2014 Posted June 28, 2014 Start at liberty.me, where you will get some traffic. If you outgrow the constraints of what is offered there, move to your own domain. Don't forget that you can also point your own domain name to your liberty.me site, so that it can be accessed as (say) benj.liberty.me and also as benjliberty.com
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