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Re: Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

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Post by imglorp »

lzauz wrote: post #3
donatj wrote: post #2

Medium lived long enough to become the villain. It was honestly quite the heel turn, but they’re all in. As far as I am concerned everyone should just move to substack at this point.

Medium has been the villain for quite some time now. But not so fast about Substack... they recently started showing modals. In the end, running a website costs money. What are you going to do.

Those modals are infuriating. Every time you go to SS for a different article, it will nag you.

Does anyone have a uBlock rule to drop them all?

Re: Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

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Post by gumboza »

brookst wrote: post #26
gumboza wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This. I'm not sure why the hell anyone would do anything else to be honest. It has been an insane proposition putting content on something you don't control.

I agree in principle, but for people who just want to focus on their project, it’s a heavy tax to learn how domains and content and everything work. Medium’s promise is “you focus on writing, we’ll deal with distributing.” They don’t live up to that promise in lots of ways, but it’s hard to fault someone for not wanting to deal with the tech.

Well there's an entry cost or an exit cost or a risk. If the tradeoff makes sense then spot on but if Medium pulls your stuff you have an untenable risk tradeoff.

This is why I don't write articles. The investment vs return is low based on the exit costs, risks and benefits.

Re: Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

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Post by mattrighetti »

I have changed my tax form 4 months ago on the platform because I moved to a different country, they still have to approve a single thing and of course they did block the monthly payroll.

I've sent them a final email asking for info on the issue, after that I'm removing all my content from the platform.

Re: Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

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Post by laserlight »

For those who, like me, had trouble parsing HN title, here's the first sentence of the tweet:

> Medium decided to ban me because I built a Chrome Extension to automatically open Medium articles in incognito mode.

And, here's Medium Rules link:

https://policy.medium.com/medium-rules-30e5502c4eb4

Re: Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

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Post by rpgbr »

donatj wrote: post #2

Medium lived long enough to become the villain. It was honestly quite the heel turn, but they’re all in. As far as I am concerned everyone should just move to substack at this point.

Centralizing stuff in another VC-backed startup is… kind risky[1]?

[1] https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2022/substack-centralization/

Re: Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

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Post by a5seo »

mcv wrote: post #19
jbaber wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is hard for non-technical people and I want to hear what they have to say. The only thing I like about twitter/facebook/medium/etc. is that I get to see what the whole world would do if they knew how to `vim index.html`. In this case, it's even harder because it's about maintaining a website synchronized with a mailing list. Make something open source and ad-free and they'd all run to it, I'm sure.

> This is hard for non-technical people and I want to hear what they have to say. I agree, so maybe we should work towards making it easier for them. I was thinking about spending my Christmas break fixing Friendica bugs, but now I'm suddenly thinking about building my own ActivityPub blogging platform (though no doubt one already exists). But of course that's not going to be enough; it needs to be trivial to deploy…

Just make a service that easily ports (or reverse proxies) content from Medium and Substack into a static site hosted on Netlify for free with a custom domain.

Users can continue authoring on those platforms but can begin promoting their own-domain version and gradually move their users off.

Re: Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

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Post by nashashmi »

It seems like we are living in an era of the Wild West filled with authoritarianism and self rule and sheriff style enforcement. Except it doesn’t just date to the Wild West. It goes back to feudalism. The same cunningness and framework of authority is being put forward.

In those days, there was no super world power America. There was no UN. There was no successful secret fraternity that espoused ideals like freedom of expression. There were just kings deeply seated in self interests.

This online world feels much like it is the same.

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