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Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by MangoCoffee »

"It’s always better to own your platform" - 100%

i listen to some Joe Rogan's podcast when he got some interesting guests. i don't remember which one but Joe mentioned Twitter ban Zuby for a reply to someone with "OK, dude".

i look up Zuby and yup. Twitter ban Zuby for saying "OK, dude" to someone. how the fuck is "OK, dude" hateful? Joe said Zuby is the nicest guy that he ever meet and Joe is right. they come for Zuby because transgender activist mock Zuby and Zuby reply with "Ok, dude".

the cancel culture in the West is destroying people from speaking freely.

the cancel culture in the West is the reason why you must own your own content. there are many people on the internet who doesn't agree with cancel culture and want to see your content but due to powerful tech company like Twitter. they can't see it because Twitter act like a publisher but don't want the responsibities that come with it.

the current Western society is in a very sad state.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by gwd »

OhSoHumble wrote: post #95

Something that wasn't mentioned is that there is a reading cap for Medium articles if the user doesn't pay. Something that is frustrating is finding some technical documentation for a project on Medium and being hit with "you hit your reading cap of 5 stories..." and having to open up an incognito window. That is dumb. I shouldn't have to pay money to get around a pay wall for a project's technical documentation.

> I shouldn't have to pay money to get around a pay wall for a project's technical documentation.

But that's on the project, not Medium; and if they want to be paid for the work that goes into their documentation, what's the problem?

I mean, seriously, Medium is $5/month, for loads of advertising-free content. Why not just subscribe?

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by axegon_ »

tomcam wrote: post #138
axegon_ wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. Many years ago I was really happy with medium as a reader. And the feed algorithm was decent enough. By no means the perfect content but for the most part it pushed forward things I was interested in. However, the monetization model turned medium(originally a decent blogging platform) into tumblr and it was a race to the bottom from that point. Any website that asks you to register in order to read a blog po…

> this is still a terrible thing to do. What’s the alternative, assuming the blogger doesn’t want to give everything away for free?

If the content is of any real value, I'd be more than happy to pay for it with money. 10 bucks? Sure, here you go. A much better option than getting emails such as "20 lessons I learned from my job interview" or whatever.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by vishnu_ks »

Narann wrote: post #133
vishnu_ks wrote: post #44

Folks looking for a Medium alternative, please checkout https://diff.blog . It's an aggregator of developer and engineering blogs I built an year back. It has been growing steadily since. The reason why I built this was to solve the problem of disoveralibilty of self hosted blogs. It's hard for bloggers with self hosted blogs to reach a big audience. So a lot of them end up moving to a platform like Medium which give…

This is seriously awesome! Is there plan for non-English blog posts? Dev community is mostly in English, but many blog posts around the world are in native language. Some blogs write in English and non-English and it's very hard for me to find content in my language. This also prevents me from registering my blog on diff.blog as my blog contains English and non-English content. Hope the best for your project!

Thank you!. At the moment diff.blog only parses English blogs from the feed. So If your blog has mixed content you can still submit the blog.

I have plan for supporting other langauges as well in future. Creating subdomains like de.diff.blog, ml.diff.blog, etc which only contains the blog posts in the respective languages should probably be good enough. The main difficulty is finding the initial set of blogs that are popular in languages which I don't understand and creating an initial user base. Maybe not be probably as hard as I make it sound.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by coldtea »

mindfulhack wrote: post #127

I want to run with this sentiment to a certain extreme: This reminds me of Cloudflare blocking that pro-nazi website at the DNS level - not because the content was illegal, but because of social or other reasons. What this means is even your own domain and web server can be censored in devastating ways, based purely on personal or cultural disagreement. Of course I'm not supporting nazism, but it's a dangerous preced…

>Of course I'm not supporting nazism

Nazism is the easy target. The precedence is removal of something legal by a moral/social decision by a corporate entity. This is dangerous.

In the 50s, had they had internet, it could be leftist or communist sympathizers' blogs (under the red scare). In the 60s it could be blacks civil rights blogs (imagine a conservative southern CDN), In the 70s/80s it could be pro-gay writings. In the GWB era it could be criticism of various wars, etc - like the Dixie Chicks had their shows cancelled for speaking out.

It already includes all kind of right and left ideas stomped, if they don't agree not just with your local country morals, but what with Americans think those should be (this includes FB banning posts for "nudity" in 2020, as if we're in the Victorian era, or as if it's e.g. French users are ok with puritanism).

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by young_unixer »

[SSG recommendation request]

I want an SSG with the following requirements:

- If it requires a dev env, it must be node. I don't want to install Ruby, Go or any other system-wide thing.

- Support for (simple) custom CSS written from scratch must be first class citizen, and not buried in a dark corner of the docs.

- RSS feed.

Thanks for your suggestions

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by api »

jiggawatts wrote: post #55
joelrunyon wrote: post #16

I've been yelling about this for years, but please start & own your own blog. Use webflow, ghost or whatever you like, but wordpress is good enough for most people. HN audience can likely handle their own, but if ease-of-setup is an issue - I created StartABlog.com to help people do this (and we'll actually set up your site for you for free - https://startablog.com/start ). Own your platform. Own your content. Own yo…

What's the best static site generator that meets the following requirements: a) Doesn't use node.js. b) Has built-in syntax highlighting for C#, SQL, PowerShell and Rust at a minimum. c) Is also good at "photo journals" or galleries. I played around with Hugo, but the themes were ugly and it was very weak at managing pictures associated with an entry instead of the entire site.

Cobalt, Jekyll, Hugo

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by Isinlor »

MangoCoffee wrote: post #141

"It’s always better to own your platform" - 100% i listen to some Joe Rogan's podcast when he got some interesting guests. i don't remember which one but Joe mentioned Twitter ban Zuby for a reply to someone with "OK, dude". i look up Zuby and yup. Twitter ban Zuby for saying "OK, dude" to someone. how the fuck is "OK, dude" hateful? Joe said Zuby is the nicest guy that he ever meet and Joe is right. they come for Zu…

Does hackernews act like publisher and doesn't want the responsibilities that come with it?

Yes - they do act like publisher. There is even editorial guide called "guidelines". They will remove things they don't want.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

And no - hackernews should not bear the responsibility for whatever we decide to write here, unless it's unlawful.

But I agree on "own your own platform".

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by lostlogin »

MangoCoffee wrote: post #141

"It’s always better to own your platform" - 100% i listen to some Joe Rogan's podcast when he got some interesting guests. i don't remember which one but Joe mentioned Twitter ban Zuby for a reply to someone with "OK, dude". i look up Zuby and yup. Twitter ban Zuby for saying "OK, dude" to someone. how the fuck is "OK, dude" hateful? Joe said Zuby is the nicest guy that he ever meet and Joe is right. they come for Zu…

> the current Western society is in a very sad state.

To play devils advocate, when was ‘western culture’ great?

Pretty much any time period that comes to mind has a rather large set of inconvenient exceptions.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

axegon_ wrote: post #126
abdullahkhalids wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pelican [1] works this way, and I love it for my blog/website. I write a post in markdown, commit and run a pelican-provided script that uploads the generated site to the hosting server. The script-running could be done with a hook. [1] https://blog.getpelican.com/

Um... No, it doesn't. > I write a post in markdown, commit and run a pelican-provided script that uploads the generated site to the hosting server. The script-running could be done with a hook. This is exactly what I don't want to deal with. Sure, I could use a ci service but this is a typical case of over-engineering a simple problem.

Something must turn the .md into HTML, and something must also publish it. You end up with 2 choices: the above one, or sth like GitLab pages, where you need to provide a CI script but then can just commit & push.
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