Medium embraces Mastodon - The fediverse is a breath of fresh air for writers and social media
Medium embraces Mastodon - The fediverse is a breath of fresh air for writers and social media
The fediverse is a breath of fresh air for writers and social media
Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm to help our authors, publications and readers find a home in the fediverse. Mastodon is an emerging force for good in social media and we are excited to join this community.
Love to see it. Mastodon is a trojan horse that companies are joining to keep up with technology, but it's taking the power out from underneath them. See what happened to Raspberry Pi after they moved to Mastodon and still tried to keep their community on a string :)
Contrary to what the title suggests, it sounds like they aren't actually planning on implementing ActivityPub on medium itself, but rather they are just launching a new medium-branded mastodon instance. 🥱
yeah it's so bad, fuck medium
In this thread, the CEO mentions they might add AP but he believes shortform and longform content should be completely separate. I don't think he realizes there's no way to keep them separate on the fediverse. Any long form content that is federated can be found on microblogging fediverse software (as it should be; the idea that they should be separate platforms is dumb)
Yeah, it really is the UI that does the job. A UI that truncates posts >500 characters behind a "show more" button already gets you closer to a microblogging platform.
more interesting question is how tf did medium manage to make TEXT so load goddamn slow lol 🤯
Medium is even one of the ones explicitly called out here: https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
They managed to make displaying some text, a bloated javascript spyware mess.
so bad it's impressive 🧐
The fediverse is the best way to undermine the control of the web by big data brothers, its not so important if you use Mastodon, Diaspora, Friendica, Lemmy or any other decentralized network, cuestion of personal taste, need or preferences.
I wonder why they're doing this, considering that the fediverse has the ability to break medium's stranglehold on long-form blogging too. Writefreely and plume already do what medium does, but better, and already plugged into the fediverse.
@muad_dibber @ragica Hmmm, likely hoping to give their writers a reason to stay, and federating will likely come when they feel that they need to leverage their brand to keep users from jumping ship.
Nice. Medium is a blog-type site, right? Wish they mentioned if they were working on having the blogs be federated.
They won't because their business model is exactly the opposite. They host your blog but then only allow viewers to read like 5 articles per month until they have to pay a subscription. Or something like that, it's one of those deeply annoying websites that I don't understand why anyone uses it.
The WaPo bans showed that social media should be controlled in-house (or at least appear to be, like email.) Medium is just a bit ahead of the curve. Expect others to follow.
So basically medium running their own mastodon instance, and making sure their workers use it rather than twitter or something, is a way to keep them in line?
scribe.rip goes brrrrrrr.