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Posthaven is a soon to launch blogging platform from two co-founders of Posterous (which was acquired by Twitter in 2012 but is now being shut down). We have no details about the platform, other than it being a for pay hosting model ($5/month to start), with no ads, and a "pledge" to keep it running, and keep your blog's URL permanent, "forever".
How will they do it? They can't say, exactly, but I like the idea in general. If people want to own their data, have easy exportability, not have ads inserted into their pages, etc..., they probably need to pay for the service. Not exactly rocket science. We'll see how the details shake out. But clearly this is the general direction from which to attack FaceBook and Twitter and others who give you the platform for free in exchange for a fairly significant loss of freedom.