Medium needs to stop doing this, or people need to stop using Medium.
It's a website that hosts blogs.
That you read.
it doesn't need your Fooglebaceook account.
@natecull Are there any Medium-adjacent services that you can recommend?
@christianbundy @natecull http://telegra.ph/ maybe, but it is really barebones, for more features you have to use a Telegram account.
@christianbundy @natecull If you're looking for an alternative service to use in place of Medium, it's extremely easy to generate a site with Jekyll and publish it to IPFS/Dat or any halfway decent web hosting company.
@christianbundy @alcinnz Wordpress.com is just as usable from a browser, and I assume Blogspot is still around, and if Livejournal weren't owned by Russia it also would be.
Nothing Medium does is new or special. It's 2000s era blogging - just way more naggy.
@natecull @christianbundy @alcinnz
If you miss Livejournal, Dreamwidth runs the same software (more or less) but isn't subject to Russian law.
@alcinnz @christianbundy @natecull s/o to https://neocities.org which syncs your sites with the IPFS for you (and is itself FOSS)
@alcinnz @christianbundy @natecull Just because I was dealing with this all last night, I went from <fresh out of the box chromebook> to <serving https://braveoldworld.neocities.org> in 17 minutes last night - that's including installing a full *nix on the chromebook, setting up python&pip&pipenv&mkdocs&mkdocs-material, gem&neocities, git, setting up the basic config of the site, and creating a matching repo at https://op.emsenn.net and on gitlab.
And check my toots - I'm not that good with computers.
@emsenn @alcinnz @christianbundy @natecull really need to buy a second chromebook I can break temporarily without depriving myself of a less-annoying work comp
@chi505 @alcinnz @christianbundy @natecull I love the pragmatic nerdiness of people in the fediverse. We'll buy chromebooks & not mock each other for it, because we recognize they're the best-fit for a real niche, right now. But use a poor-fit when there are betters available, and we will rip you apart for it... while providing you helpful resources on how to migrate to the better-fit, of course.
@christianbundy @chi505 @alcinnz @natecull drool, i'm on a 2014 asus chromebook :( (but i do have a desktop that... was pretty decent in 2012)
... Man, I gotta get my income higher, or soon my tech is just gonna be too old. :\
@emsenn @chi505 @alcinnz @natecull I honestly regret buying it -- it looked new and shiny but the Linux support is ass and I haven't been able to get Debian or Arch running smooth on it.
I wish laptops and phones were more repairable (and lasted longer!), I hate to think about how much tech is wasted on highly disposable products for people with highly disposable income.
@emsenn @christianbundy @chi505 @alcinnz @natecull I still use an '08 MacBook with Ubuntu Mate installed on it. It works for what I need :)
@afterconnery @emsenn @chi505 @alcinnz @natecull Nice! Have you replaced the battery on it? That's usually the first component that dies for me.
@christianbundy @afterconnery @emsenn @chi505 @alcinnz @natecull yeah with a cheap one from China that doesn't work :(
Next time I will spend $90 to get a legit one that works with it.
@natecull "Fooglebaceook" 10/10
@natecull
Say it with me now:
👌 Wordpress takes 5 mins 👌
@natecull Come-on Medium, I don't care about you!
I care about elementary LLC, and the links my friends and family send me which may be hosted on your site.
@natecull If you like things more automatic, self host a Ghost instance, or Hugo if you like tinkering with stuff. I use both and they are rather palatable. I'd use them over wordpress any day.
@vagnes @natecull TBH I love Gutenberg for simple blogs - https://getgutenberg.io.
I don't use it anymore (had to go for a bad bulky ERP) but https://vincent.is/ is a good demo of it, from the creator.
@brian @vagnes @natecull Enterprise Resource Planner - kind of a catch-all for services which provide not just a CMS (content management system like wordpress) but CRM (customer relations management like salesflare), accounting (like quickbooks), etc.
The one I use for my site is Odoo - I love it for what it is, it's just soooo much compared to how tiny my other sites are.
@natecull why do all sites eventually turn into shit
@rx14 because investors, generally
@natecull this is why I don't have an account there. I think they were accepting Twitter logins back when I considered it.
But now they got that floating nav thing and I've lost what little interest I had.
that movie was SO CREEPY
@natecull how diificult is it to run a blog? people need to stop using medium if they want different results
@natecull Do they not even allow email signup anymore? 🙀
@natecull medium is a cancer. We need to make jekyll-like blogs as easy to use as wordpress...
@natecull People on this thread might enjoy reading this: https://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html
A typographer cited by one of Medium's own (actually by the team) blogposts expressed worry about Medium, and expressed his distaste for their typography. Too monoform, not catered to the text they host at all.
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@alcinnz Let's not forget Medium got a bunch of folk on the platform early on by giving them a share of the revenue they generated and then changing the terms later. (That's why you can find some of my writing on Medium for a short time, and then it all moved to Steemit and later my own (ironically ad-free) blog.
@emsenn I didn't know that, very sneaky. Now I'm even less willing to support them then I already was.
@alcinnz I was *super* pissed about it - they scooped me from another outlet after I wrote a series of articles exposing judicial misconduct in Wisconsin, paid me for an article I rephrasing French proto-economic thought, and then said "actually we'll help you promote your work here, instead of paying you for the work."
Because nothing is more valuable than directing marketing toward something I can't generate revenue off. <_<
@alcinnz for reference to anyone reading along, https://emsenn.net/blog/blog-1/post/justice-failed-steven-avery-brendan-dassey-5 and https://emsenn.net/blog/blog-1/post/is-it-better-to-starve-7 are the relevant pieces - clearly not on Medium lol.
@natecull Also, note that it's tracking you despite not having a login. Where else on the web is it tracking you to?
@natecull Old joke, but always relevant: Medium is perfectly named. It's neither rare nor well-done.
@natecull I've been surprised today for about 20 seconds when I saw this today. Then I simply clicked the X button. On the browser tab. The fewer people read Medium posts the fewer would keep posting to it.
@natecull They asked used to sign up with birdsite earlier since that's the parent company anyway.
Maybe they realized that big G and big F are more popular than birdsite.
like HTML (at the blog level) is so easy even an idiot like me can do it.
And its open source so no fuckbook/Poopgle... and its really quite neat in that it supports IPFS so its at least semi decentralized (they use the term distributed) (https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2017/08/07/ipfs-dns-support.html).
I'd recommend it highly.
@natecull I joked that it crossed a clear line when it started sounding like a request for a wedding proposal.
@natecull Agreed. Pisses me off as well.
@natecull There is no "or" about it. People need to stop using Medium. Decentralise the web!
@natecull Actually I never understood why medium became so popular. Because sites like wordpress weren't cool enough anymore?
@ckeen maybe because it deliberately blurred the difference between 'Legitimate Journalism! tm we paid for' and 'some rando just put up a blog'?
So every blog on it suddenly looked exactly the same and all of them looked like Legitimate Journalism! tm and all of them came with a built-in halo of pricey fact-checked goodness even when they absolutely weren't.
which in itself is not a very nice or ethical thing to do when you think about it
@natecull Not at all.
@natecull Medium is super annoying already with their top and bottom bars even without that idiotic popup. I think people need to stop using Medium whether or not they get rid of the popup.
@natecull medium sucks