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Why Are We All on Medium?
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Re: Why Are We All on Medium?
#12Well the short answer to this is that we are not all on medium.
I have a weird static blog that I almost never post to.
Re: Why Are We All on Medium?
#13In fact the best people I know (hackers, makers and the alike) are all using home-made static blogs or even the much bashed Wordpress.
Medium seems really full of clickbait articles, or stuff with very little real content (the typical "How Waking Up At 7 AM Changed My Leadership Style And My Career Forever" kind of crap).
Re: Why Are We All on Medium?
#14I feel like the most obvious answer was missed: People use Medium because there's an audience there and it mostly "just works."
I don't personally care about organically building a brand for myself over the course of years. I don't want to write an article a week only to have it never see the light of day. All I want to do is jot down a few thoughts from time to time and have some people stumble upon it. Make the world a slightly better place.
Medium is perfect for that. The interface is beautiful, and it's far more likely that someone will stumble across my post on Medium than find my crappy blog.
Re: Why Are We All on Medium?
#15What FOSS-freaks are on medium? The communities I know of congregate on reddit, IRC, forums, and blogrolls
Re: Why Are We All on Medium?
#16Once upon a time I had a custom-coded blogging platform, a domain name, and a fairly frequently updated personal blog. And nobody read it. Once in a while I had a technical post that got a little attention, but it faded quickly.
I'd mention posts to friends and their response was always "what's your LJ name? I'll friend you." And then I'd tell them about my self-hosted blog and they'd look at me like I was an alien. There wasn't room in their world for a blog that didn't live on LiveJournal.
LJ added a feature to pull in an RSS feed and make it look like an LJ account. The only difference was the RSS logo next to the username instead of a photo. One of my wife's friends sucked in my feed this way and people started following me there. They also started commenting there, but their comments on LJ weren't connected to my blog's comments. People were hurt I wasn't responding to their comments because I never saw them. I had to open an LJ account just to respond to my blog's comments somewhere other than my blog.
Look, I'm active in the WordPress community. I've coded blogs in PHP, Java, and Node.js. But at the end of the day, I want people to read and engage with my content. And in 2016 that means posting on Medium. I need to go where the audience is, and Medium's social features & suggested posts make it a winner.
Re: Why Are We All on Medium?
#17Why are we all on HN and not Usenet, the original distributed link-sharing system?
Re: Why Are We All on Medium?
#18Why are we all on HN and not Usenet, the original distributed link-sharing system?
That's a very good question actually. GNUS is so much better than any web interface for that.
Re: Why Are We All on Medium?
#19Who wants to spend their time re-inventing the wheel? That said, I dont even know what medium is. Most bloggers are using Wordpress, if you look at the statistics of the web, and for good reasons. Anyone who's serious about creative control is operating their own blog. I think Twitter and Facebook's biggest contribution to social media will be the eventual resurgence of private blogs and RSS.
> Who wants to spend their time re-inventing the wheel?
Ask any author of thousands of 'We reimplemented something in Go, Rust and Node.js'.
Re: Why Are We All on Medium?
#20> Next time you want to post an essay to Medium, do the open web a favor and post it elsewhere. Anywhere.
That's Dave Winer, first bloger - http://scripting.com/liveblog/users/davewiner/2016/01/20/090...