3) A large part of Medium’s success with the average Jan Doe is it’s stellar usability and aesthetic. If you don’t match that, forget it.
4) There are a lot of trolls on Medium for commenting reasons. Desiring a M model for commenting reasons may backfire. Not everyone wants to entertain comments.
5) A blog post is not ‘longform’ (unless upwards of ~3K words). Why not just custom extend Masto’s char limit to an equivalent of 500 words?
@wion I keep telling people that extending the limit and allowing for simple emphasis and strong emphasis would do wonders. Google+ has shown that some people will use it to write amazing posts. But I’ve met a resistance on Mastodon which seems to be deeply rooted and I don’t get it.
I agree. Masto if perfectly capable of being a ‘social’ blog tool right now. Just needs needs more characters, some rudimentary formatting syntax, and a slight layout change away from these silly colums. Done.
@wion @kensanata There already are Mastodon clients that don’t impose those “silly” columns.
@kensanata @wion As they say in Bavarian, “i a”.
Yeah, I mostly use phone, so a single column is fine for Masto.
But maybe we lost context here. I was talking about blog models, presumably in desktop mode.
@wrenpile @wion I mostly use Amaroq which is single column.