I've talked about my dislike for #Medium in the past but after listening to the latest episode of @mike 's Dot Social podcast (https://flipboard.social/@mike/111772770875141589) featuring @coachtony (CEO of Medium) I have a much different perspective on what Medium provides to both creators and those of us who still want to find something good and meaningful on the web. This comes at a time where companies like Google and Microsoft are destroying search at a furious speed. I still would like to see people embrace the #indieweb and not rely on centralized places for hosting their content but what Medium provides as a service to A. get people actually writing and B. Surface interesting things through human curation is imo really great.
So anyways, I’m going to go check out some stuff on Medium and I suggest everyone go subscribe to the Dot Social podcast as each episode has really been fantastic so far.
The Fediverse gives @coachtony “early internet vibes.” The Medium CEO joins Flipboard CEO @mike to discuss what’s wrong with the attention economy, why human curation still matters, and how decentralized social media is enabling entrepreneurs to “rethink everything.”
(1/2) Deploy a Shinylive App ✨ to Github Pages tutorial 👇🏼
I created this tutorial a day after the announcement of the shinylive R version at the Posit conference, using a dev version of the shinylive and httpuv packages. It was on my TODO list for quite a while to update the tutorial with the stable version of the core packages. Thanks to a PR from Ronak Shah 🙏🏼, I updated the tutorial and the supporting Docker 🐳.
"I'm amazed by how little self awareness there is around how the internet inspired people to cheat. I get growth hacking. I've growth hacked a ton of things. But I always knew I was cheating the platform. I never deluded myself on that. [...] I always knew it was cheating and some how it become so normalized. It's like how else am I going to make a living except by gaming the platform?" - @coachtony
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:
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 :)
Guess I won’t cross-post to Medium then. Shameless plug for #GhostCMS, and my blog which runs it and allows people to comment and boost via the Fediverse and Mastodon.
When I see authors who I hold in high regard announce that they've gone through the trouble of moving away from #Medium / #LinkedIn and setting up shop on #Substack, I won't then & there ruin their party by pointing out the problems with Substack and that their time & effort is wasted. I can't fault someone for picking the platform for its merits. But I will not follow anyone there and I can spread awareness.
If you’re a @medium subscriber, consider dropping by and following my publication. You don’t have to subscribe to emails or anything, at least not just yet. Just click follow. Help get my numbers up.
It’s a daily column in the model of the classic newspaper columns of old about whatever crosses my mind each day. It’s usually pretty entertaining.
George Carlin said that inside every cynic, you would find a disappointed idealist. I have often described myself as a cynical romantic for precisely the same reason. I have this delusional ideal of what humanity and human culture should be like, and I’m constantly devastated to realize how short we fall, each and every day.
It’s that special time of year where I look around the blog hosting world and consider rebuilding my static sites on an alternative I assume will be less fragile but ends up being equally if not more brittle in other ways.
@gruber@dimillian@objc@chris@davedelong@mergesort Such a shame #Medium makes you sign in to start reading. I’ve had the same experience with certain online newspapers, and I don’t appreciate the pressure to give them my details just to read a free article.
This is why I mirror my Medium articles on a blog on my own domain. Looking to host it elsewhere, not sure yet where. No-code for sure.
All my #blog posts & technical #articles are free on my personal site. But if you're a #Medium user, you can support me by checking out my posts on that weird ass goofy website. I've only got one article on there now; I'll be slowly adding more articles one by one, but they'll always be available on my website too.
Goodreads is embroiled in an anonymous-book-reviews scandal that cost a writer a book contract. A similar scandal could hit #Medium if the platform keeps allowing--and boosting--book reviews posted under fake names, which could have been written by an author's mother, worst enemy, or paid publicist.