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

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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…

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…

Markdown is IMO good enough to archive.

The major point of using markdown, or why I use it, is that it doesn't require a working implementation to be understood. I can open a markdown file in ed and still understand it. From what I've seen of RestructuredText and Org-mode, if i'm not using the implementation, it becomes a mess.

(I also always recommend to put anything that isn't widely implemented in Markdown in HTML instead since that will be reasonably parsable for the next couple decades.)

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

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It's getting harder and harder for me to muster any sympathy for these "Company X suspended my account and now I can't do Y" sob stories. As long as it's not your server, running software you control, you are taking the risk that whoever is providing that service will go out of business, capriciously close your account, censor you, ban you, etc., whether or not you're paying for it. Moreover, if your business actuall…

What happens when your DDoS-protection reverse proxy deems your words wrongthink and drops you, allowing anyone with $50 to flood your server? What happens when your registrar drops your account and steals your domain name so that you can't transfer it elsewhere? What happens when you get BGP blackholed? And what happens when all the modern-day puritans on Twitter approve of these actions? What happens when the oh-so…

You can always start to host on a Tor onion service, though that is admittedly the last straw.

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

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I never understood why people trust their data, identity and brand to others to have ultimate power over. Whether it's facebook.com/yourbrand or twitter.com/blah or medium.com/pleasedonthurtme I realize that these days people may want something more than Wordpress, they want some social networking layer. So I did something about it. I opened a company and 7 years we worked on an open source platform to once and for a…

> I never understood why people trust their data, identity and brand to others to have ultimate power over.

> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1O_gmPneI

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

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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?

Combined with git and some webhook to regenerate on change, I think it's better than most CMSs. It's fast, nice-looking (assuming you use a theme, like m.css), secure, doesn't take much storage, really simple, nearly bug-free etc.

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

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I have no idea why businesses think that it's a good idea to let third-party sites control their primary website pages. I have written at length here about this issue >> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/basecamp-moved-blog-medium-yo...

The point is, everyone is moving to medium because they have great UX plus they already have an in0built audience. But what happens when they have to start making money? We all know what happened to Facebook pages.

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

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> 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.

Fair enough!

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

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Would that be a negative aspect? Why wouldn't you try to bring the best possible experience to your reader?

chomp: For starters we could make you and many others (0.1%-1%?) just accept it and enable javascript so we help stop the global warming, don't you care about the earth? :)) And its quite possible to make a SPA that renders on the server and serves you an html but then maybe we can show just half the information so we don't send too much info to your browser.

obviously enabling javascript contributes to global warming because of increase resource usage, not that I mind.

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

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I don't even understand why someone who has a hosting would want to write on medium when they can host their own blog, especially when in the case of liberapay and mastodon they say they are fighting for freedom but choose to wirte their posts in a closed, centralized service which also has user-hostile behavior.

It's the difference between having your own website and having a twitter page.

Medium already has a bunch of daily users and your future audience can discover you there. If you only have your own blog, how will people know you exist?

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

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Medium is a magazine with unpaid writers.

That's not true. I made about $200 from a Medium article published last month to their membership program. It's not an amazing amount of money, but better than I expected for a single post.

Yeah, that's a living wage for a writer.

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

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Ah, that policy page was added a week ago (the update date is visible on the mobile site). Even if that policy was violated, it’s a jerk move to ban for infractions prior to that date.

Probably a pre-emptive move triggered by FOSTA and that other one that starts with S who's name I forgot.

I don't think FOSTA/SESTA have anything to do with cryptocurrencies.
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