This confuses me. Several months ago Dave Winer wrote a post titled 'Anywhere but Medium' where he railed against closed platforms such as Medium that could disappear at a moment's notice and where the editorial voice was controlled by a company (as an individual gets to decide who gets noticed).

Now Dave Winer is launching a platform that could also disappear at a moments' notice, where the best chance of being 'noticed' is likely to be getting reposted by Dave Winer.

What's more, it seems to go against some of the Open Web principles that Winer espouses (seems to require JavaScript to view any content, doesn't seem to render anything if you have Safari Content Blockers running, requires a Twitter account even to get up and running with the thing). All in all it seems to have very little to do with 1999 or any kind of 'golden age' for the Web.

Developers already have tons of options for getting a blog up and running, from GitHub Pages to Posthaven and Ghost - what gives with this?