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Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by conductr »

michaco33 wrote: post #66
jscholes wrote: post #54

> If you enjoy reading on the web chances are you’ve been forced to login to Medium at some point in the last week. I've never once logged into Medium. I see a "Pardon the Interruption" notice every time I want to read something, but I just hit Escape and move on with my day. If I had to pick a side, I'd probably say avoid Medium. But I don't know under what circumstances it forces you to log in just to read somethin…

I've been doing this too. I'm also doing this with NYT, WSJ, FT -- all publications behind higher and higher paywalls, all publications I tried, but ended up leaving because they still serve you ads on their mobile apps. Now the question is this: if I didn't care or it wasn't worth reading, why did I click on it in the first place? Perhaps I don't care about this content as much as I thought anymore. Maybe we've been…

I do this too. Hate paywalls. But not against the idea of paying. The problem is, it’s too fractured. It feels like if I had to pay for each channel on cable TV, it adds up to way too much when you think about the wide scope of sites I could stumble upon on any given month. And like TV, I’m not really a reader of any news site, I’m a reader of interesting pieces of content that surfaces through places like HN/reddit. Then, you also have the fact that usually the title was enough info I realize I don’t even really need to read the text.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by suzil »

Medium will often pop up when I search for something programming-related, but I'm less likely to find someone's blog post. What if we had a search engine that would only show programmer/technical blog posts? Then we could bring more traffic to the self-published.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by sdan »

robjan wrote: post #55
sdan wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use Ghost. It's free, given you have a server set up.

And you have just identified the reason that most people won't use it

Use DigitalOcean One-click instances, and it essentially makes it for you with all the necessary steps. It's super simple.

I used that a while back and now run it on Docker on GCP since DO was a bit expensive.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by fastball »

valtism wrote: post #117
PhasmaFelis wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For some while (maybe still), there was a common belief that talking about your drug experiences online couldn't be used against you in court if you pretended it was someone else. This could be done semi-convincingly if you talked about, say, your "roommate" using drugs, but pretty quickly people started saying shit like "my cat" or "someone who isn't me" and, finally, abbreviated that to "SWIM." Like, "SWIM wants to…

It's the same as those who believe that if you ask the person selling you weed if they are police, they are under obligation by law to tell you so. They are not.

Eh, not really the same.

Cops are demonstrably not required to tell you they are cops. The idea that they need to was always ridiculous misinformation.

Meanwhile, as far as I'm aware, SWIM has not been the lynchpin in a court case yet, so it's hard to say one way or the other if using it as legal cover is actually a gross misconception.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by house_atr »

55555 wrote: post #65

I was writing on Medium because it ranks well in Google. I wrote nearly a dozen really great articles on primarily health and dietary supplement topics. After 2 months they started to rank well and were getting daily readers, as the content was really great. Then I wrote an article on a 'research chemical' and they banned my account overnight. I lost the final edited versions of all content. They did not send me a zi…

"I have no doubt if an alt-right voice wrote on Medium and were controversial enough in their views they'd be deplatformed."

What's the problem, again?

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by davidz »

It's fine to dislike Medium and run your own blog, but I find the article intellectually dishonest in comparing Medium to Facebook. One harvests your data and lets advertisers target you with ads, the other charges a subscription to provide access to content.

It's disingenuous to claim they "sell whatever advertising they please", and link to a ToS screen cap that's completely unrelated.

Companies have to make money in order to pay their developers and pay for servers. Personally, I'd rather pay them instead of seeing ads plastered everywhere.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by aladine »

Semaphor wrote: post #104
jscholes wrote: post #54

> If you enjoy reading on the web chances are you’ve been forced to login to Medium at some point in the last week. I've never once logged into Medium. I see a "Pardon the Interruption" notice every time I want to read something, but I just hit Escape and move on with my day. If I had to pick a side, I'd probably say avoid Medium. But I don't know under what circumstances it forces you to log in just to read somethin…

> I see a "Pardon the Interruption" notice every time I want to read something https://makemediumreadable.com/ I stopped minding medium (as a reader) since installing that.

Love this addon. It gives me the freedom to browse Medium again.
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