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Theory: 1) Medium has SESTA/FOSTA concerns. 2) Medium constructs a broad, but also shallow/naive, search for warning terms. 3) Since darkweb pornographers accept cryptocurrencies, all crypto-related terms are included in the search. 4) One of those terms is "decentralized," which is also a property of Mastodon. 5) Mastodon gets auto-banned.
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What is hate speech, given it’s been systematically used to censor political opponents...
It's whatever the people who are not in power say it is. Which doesn't make the concept any more valid than if the opposite were true.
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Standard reminder that Markdown, while pleasant to author in, is perhaps one of the least standard formats ever (every implementation does things their own way; see Babelmark 2) and not a great archive format, largely as a result. (Markdown files don’t have version or flavor information embedded) I hear org-mode is a good alternative. In the mean time, consider storing a permanent .html version upon publication of ma…
Commonmark is a wonderful and well defined markdown standard (ie the one GitHub uses)
Notably, GitHubbers and StackOverflow representatives joined to define CommonMark, but GitHub and StackOverflow do not have remotely similar fenced code block conventions.
Also, CommonMark currently says that they have not yet defined a version 1.0 of the spec.
I certainly applaud the effort, but CommonMark did not unify all the Markdowns.
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Cited in the spirit of good humor, but not irrelevant: https://xkcd.com/927/
Serious question - how is it not irrelevant? Should it be posted any time people discuss the pros and cons of various standards?
Always publish on your own platform then syndicate it across all the relevant social media providers to get exposure. It's a huge pain, especially now that most platforms are closed and don't provide automation (APIs, RSS), but it's really the most flexible solution. It also makes syndicating to new providers a lot less painful since you'll have some standard raw form (e.g. Markdown) which you can create a manual or…
Medium even has options to import copies of posts from your main site and an API for it, which they haven't gotten rid of yet.
This is why I use Publii https://getpublii.com It's open source, free static CMS with GUI and free themes. You can easily sync your website with Netlify, GitHub Pages, Google Cloud, S3 or SFTP.
Set up publii for a non-technical client, it looked like everything the client needed, but a few stumbling blocks 1) Themes are too limited, there are 2) Even though it has a pretty good GUI, it is still confusing for non-technical people, and I struggled a lot with it too, mostly because there aren't tooltips next to fields to explain them (e.g. what is the difference between a "title" and a "label" for a link?) I'l…
PS: In fact, there are 10 themes at this moment but show me the same quality, free themes that come with other static generators.
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Have we seen proof for this to be the case? I see people make that argument all the time...it’s a good sounding hypothesis...but does it actually work? Is there data that shows that this was done and that it was impactful?
It's hard to measure this in hindsight. Someone would have to do a controlled study. That said, Given the number of voters that stayed home in 2016 (over 10% in the key states of WI, MI, OH, and PA) and the number of people who voted "against Clinton" suggests it was highly effective. Cambridge Analytica and similar firms have a data set of how emotions can impact certain kinds of people. They have openly admitted th…
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If you are concerned about the privacy of your readers, using Disqus probably isn't such a good idea: https://replyable.com/2017/03/disqus-is-your-data-worth-trad...
Two alternatives are: https://github.com/posativ/isso and Discourse on a subdomain ($5/month for a Digital Ocean server).
https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments — there's serverless hosting (with privacy. No ads, no tracking), + it's open source like Isso.
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Good point. There are probably other like services. I don’t really get much traffic!
The best other service: a mailto: link. People do write e-mails on posts they like, sometimes. Also, 9 out of 10 comment threads under blog posts I've read are just plain stupid logorrhoea. Maybe a subreddit would work too?
Hey everyone, if you're looking for a fantastic blog engine, I want to tell you about Ghost: https://ghost.org I found Ghost while looking for a new blog engine for my company. My first instinct was to use Medium as well, but I ended up hitting a lot of issues because it was impossible for us to customize it (add custom javascript, charts, disable the lame "highlights", custom domain was not free, etc...). 1. Ghost i…
I don't know why your service doesn't scale to be as good as, if not better than that, since you can put more effort into static caching and optimization at scale.