@collectedoverspread If I can re-word what you said, to make it as another perspective which is my view of the real problem (still sharing your core sentiment):

"The fact that USERS BUY INTO as a commercial service annoys me greatly. Should something as basic as a single-page site with a bunch of links really be outsourced to an outside service?"

Basically this applies to everything (even Fediverse now as it's normalising as a Twitter also)
1/ it's the users that are the weakest link
+ Answer1: need to educate +
+ Answer2: we the admins need to restructure and MAKE IT more our business (in the many meanings of that)
2/ if we don't make interacting with people the main activity (levelling them up or even giving them free alternative links) we've lost or only delayed these fish that just flop into things (some willingly but some that don't care could be pushed into 'flopping' at least here rather than there.

Users are the weakest link mostly... Need to make it more interactive and direct so as we talk (not just work) about everything it upgrades their brain (the firmware!)...

It's not just about Free Fediverse or web space either - it's political on many levels - and sometimes the supplies do 0 of that because they don't want to talk to people or more fiddle endlessly with computers once #Mastodon etc is all setup.

✊ May the people work (talking) commence and the commerce be curtailed together.

What do you think on that?

#Web #WorldWideWeb
#Admins for #Education
#Habits #BetterPractices