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Re: Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

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Post by tajen »

djflutt3rshy wrote: post #101
srslack wrote: post #34

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>the understanding of platforms like Medium had been that they will not censor people for ideological reasons They threw out their integrity as a publishing platform when they updated their ToS a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16431403 Indeed, there is not much of a point to their existence when they throw this away, other than being a virtue signalling magazine with unpaid authors that doesn't even…

If more speech was the remedy to hate speech, then we would expect platforms with the most speech and least censorship would have the least hate. But compare well moderated social discussion sites like MetaFilter, HN, Fark to "anything goes" places like Twitter, 4chan, Reddit, etc. and the opposite is true.

What is hate speech, given it’s been systematically used to censor political opponents...

Re: Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

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Post by Kenji »

xab9 wrote: post #139

I never liked medium, their comment UX is weird and annoying, the whole thing is just faceless, brandless and feels generic. Mabye I'm old, but I find shared hosting with one click deployment of wordpress a better choice, but heck, most of the blogs I end up reading nowdays are tech blogs written by bright people who for some reason will not 1. deploy an existing blog engine to a shared host 2. host a blog on a vps 3…

> (how much time could that be? a day?)

You'd be surprised how much time you can sink in a high quality blog engine.

Re: Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

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Post by tajen »

sgtmas2006 wrote: post #150
djflutt3rshy wrote: post #101

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If more speech was the remedy to hate speech, then we would expect platforms with the most speech and least censorship would have the least hate. But compare well moderated social discussion sites like MetaFilter, HN, Fark to "anything goes" places like Twitter, 4chan, Reddit, etc. and the opposite is true.

Reddit is not considered "Anything goes" by any stretch of the imagination. Reddit hasn't been the place for freedom for over half a decade now. Nor 4chan, or twitter. All of these sites are extremely heavily moderated, which is understandable, but saying that they are "anything goes" is false by any stretch of the imagination. Honestly before last year, Discord was the place to be, no matter what your topic was. One…

I didn’t follow. Is Discord a censored service now?

Re: Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

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Post by Zak »

intopieces wrote: post #138
Zak wrote: post #70

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Suppressing an automated service disruption or preventing the spread of spam is different from policing content on topical or ideological grounds. Looking at reddit as an example, I don't like where this is headed. First they came for pedos and creepers, and I said nothing because ewww. Then they came for assholes and trolls, and I said nothing because good riddance. Now they've come for gun coupons, and I don't want…

>I don't want to flee to Voat because it's dominated by assholes and trolls. It’s exactly this sentiment that prompts services like Reddit to censor. They need users; it’s no use being a bastion of free speech if you are hemorrhaging ad dollars because assholes and trolls ruin your platform.

Indeed, but now they've moved beyond that. While the latest round of content restrictions seem to be motivated by FOSTA, they go significantly beyond what is necessary to avoid liability.

Re: Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

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Post by Lazare »

pmarreck wrote: post #28
forgotmypw wrote: post #4

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I rarely click medium.com links, or any of their associated domains, hackernoon.com, etc. The website sucks . It's crippled without JS, and squirmy and laggy when JS is enabled. Either way, it's very heavy on the network pipe. Medium is in business of driving traffic, which means the content is likely to be mediocre. It's content that is looking for an audience, as my comment's sibling states. Which means that it is…

> It's crippled without JS It's an SPA. What did you expect? That's the new M.O., unless you're a 90's relic like myself, in which case I appreciate your point but times change.

> It's an SPA.

Yes, that's the problem.

> What did you expect?

Technology to be used in an appropriate manner to achieve business goals.

> That's the new M.O.

...for apps, yes. This isn't an app, it's a blog. Of all the things on the internet that could be handled by a static page of HTML and CSS with maybe some JS to offer extra features, this is it.

Re: Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

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Post by iagovar »

RobGav wrote: post #143
alpb wrote: post #103

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As many others indicated, static sites are much better unless you need dynamic features. Static sites make deployments much easier, doesn't depend on any OS/runtime, doesn't lock you in to a particular database. You just write markdown and with little to no modification, the same thing could just work on Hugo, or Jekyll.

Easy to use for non technical users is Publii https://getpublii.com It works like a dynamic CMS but generates static output, comes with GUI and clean, lightweight free themes.

Publii is fishy, they dont have public repos

Re: Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

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Post by iagovar »

Avamander wrote: post #93
smallbigfish wrote: post #82

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Not mentioned above but "interesting": - requires exactly mysql, nodejs, nginx and at least 1GB RAM. - the only supported setup is Ubuntu 16.04 - has some sort of ghost-cli application used for management. At least for me: not enough fingers for "thumbs down".

One lightweight solution I've found great for blogs is Pelican with m.css, it's really nice and could be served even from a toaster.

Pelican? Is that a cms?

Re: Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

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Post by pjc50 »

srslack wrote: post #73
pjc50 wrote: post #45

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> more speech, not less When speech can be automated, this turns into a question of who has the largest promotional bot army. True speech can be drowned out with an infinite array of conflicting lies.

If we go by your definition, "true speech" is always intended to persuade others of your opinions or positions. I don't believe that to be the case. Your reference to the last presidential election is nonsensical, if you're attempting to claim that the Democratic candidate lost because of a few hundred thousand dollars in ad buys and thousands of Twitter bots. Clinton lost because the campaign was clumsy when it came…

> Your reference to the last presidential election is nonsensical, if you're attempting to claim that the Democratic

Speaking of "true speech", I didn't say any of those things. I happened to be thinking of Michael Gove's "had enough of experts" https://www.ft.com/content/3be49734-29cb-11e6-83e4-abc22d5d1... and the much earlier GWB reference to not being in the "reality based community".

Re: Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

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Post by acqq »

et-al wrote: post #145
Zak wrote: post #77

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There are some use cases for which SPAs are a huge leap forward, greatly improving the user experience. A lot of modern web applications don't and shouldn't behave like a collection of pages, after all. A blog is not one of these use cases; it is exactly a collection of pages.

Not to mention, as a SPA, Medium is a total failure. Trying to read a string of comments on Medium results in a bunch of unnecessary clicks and page reloads. I guess it's upping their click count..

I have thought it was intentional, to reduce the number of comments and motivate the writers to write their own real big posts instead.

The way I see it, medium doesn't want to be a forum, but to have people write the full articles. Even those who respond.

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