This week on my #podcast, I read my recent #Medium column, "Microincentives and Enshittification," about the way that monopoly drives mediocrity, with Google's declining quality as Exhibit A:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
If you're on Medium, and you write essays (no politics, however) or fiction, please let me know. I'm planning to be a Medium subscriber this year to support writers.
Also if you're not there, I hope you can be - it's just an economical way for me to support you as my currency is shite :)
It is 100% hilarious but it never occurred for me to mirror my content to #Medium until @justin wrote this.
As a reader this makes a lot of sense as I can financially support as many authors as I can with one payment. I wish more #Substack writers will consider mirroring their content to Medium so I can help support them.
Oh gosh, a lovely person who read what I wrote in my complexity-is-good era for #Obsidian on #Medium, just contacted me with a question about the code.
Eeeeek
It's been so long since I've done the
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thing, I really had to stop and think. Great brain gymnastics!
Hmmm, I thought my notes were more simple these days, but then I checked out the header to my daily notes and can see there's still a bit to it: 🧵1/3
So while one key piece of the #Fediverse is that entire instances can be blocked as a form of moderation, and keeping things safe for people. I think it should be clearly stated to newcomers to any instance if entire platforms such as #Meta / #Tumblr / #Medium / #WordPress.com / #Bluesky (through a bridge) are being blocked.
If someone wants to have a federated identity and follow family/friends on Meta then they are SOL if an instance completely blocks the entire platform. #fediblock
Should #Medium take active measures to prevent AI companies from unapproved, uncredited, uncompensated training on your stories? (Assume this is possible)
Guys, gals, everyone, please consider either not posting on #Medium or at least cross-post it on places like your own blog or @writefreely , especially if you are writing about #OpenSource or #OpenHardware. There are plenty of instances that are available:
The biggest problem with the #blogging site #Medium is that they have both paid and free articles at the same domain.
Because the paid articles aren't worth the money, I block medium.com from my search results entirely (to stop wasting time hitting a paywall) but that also blocks the free articles. (Which are usually better than the paid ones, actually.)
I know I'm not alone in blocking Medium, I hope people posting free stuff there know their reach is being limited by using that host.
I want to start writing regularly as I no longer have my column in my local magazine* and I LOVE writing…what do people think of Medium? Mostly to write about living in my queer Jewish identity as I try to grapple with antisemitism.
*I dropped it after I asked for a small fee for my columns and they refused. It’s work…therefore I should be paid.
Made my recent journal entry about the story of Liezi into a medium post because why not. Still feels weird to share something that unpolished, but since unpolished jade and unhewn blocks are daoist metaphors after all it's probably fine.
Thanksgiving is the most popular holiday in America — even bigger than Christmas, if you can believe that. It is the one holiday in our calendar year that professes no religious connotation, contains no political charge, or nod to labor or the armed forces; it has no racial overtones, ideological bent, or any notable commercial component, which might be the most shocking reality of all.
👋 Hi, this is the official Medium account on our new instance! This is our home on @me.dm, where we’ll be boosting writers and publications, sharing stories, and trying to deepen our understanding of Mastodon and the fediverse.
To get started, we thought we’d share this list of resources about getting up and running if you, like us, are new here: https://scottlamb.blog/list/f4843d1cc80f
answer: not very hard as long as admins keep leaving their federated timelines open
you'd want to base this on regular periodic timeline sampling so that instances that defederate will automatically drop off the blocklist after a week or whatever
Hey all you #developers that wrote useful stuff on #medium. Are you all fine with them paywalling your content? If so, more power to you, but I hope they're not trying to make money off content you wrote to help people for free.
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I really don’t get why tech-people / developers blog on medium.
It’s such a shit ux with those popups everywhere, and whilst I get that setting up your own blog can be daunting to non-techies, it’s so easy for us tech folks. And cheap.
The size of the Docker image could quickly increase during the build time. I became more mindful of the image size when I started to deploy on Github Actions. The bigger the image size, the longer the run time and the higher the runtime cost.
This is when you should consider using a multi-stage build 🚀.
Has #Medium done any Fediverse integration so far other than standing up their own Mastodon instance? And, I think, integrated their user database somehow?
Why I prefer reading #GhostBlog blogs to #Medium and am looking forward to their #ActivityPub networking. I'm not sure if Medium authors remember this is the first impression that many of their blogs will see-- a good part of the page covered with a popover.