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Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by Funes- »

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…

>own your own blog

>Own your platform. Own your content. Own your voice.

There's no way to fully own a place on the clearnet. At a minimum, you will have to rent a domain, and most people will rent the hosting as well. Moreover, authorities can seize or block both of those, while payment services can also "cancel" or "deplatform" you if you need them to pay for costs--so much for having a voice on the net.

The only way to own content on the Internet is to publish it in a free, decentralized and anonymous manner--I'm thinking I2P sites, for instance, and even that is subject to attacks that could make it inaccessible.

In any case, I wholewheartedly agree that Medium is not the home for anything worthwhile.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by paulie_a »

Unless you are in HR and need to participate in the circle jerk why both with medium? You might as well use literally any other platform including blogger. No one is reading anyways. Medium used to have interesting content once upon a time. They are a player in that industry like all is a player in internet access.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by zaptrem »

wincy wrote: post #21
dvtrn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Owning your content and self-publication is one of the principles of the indieweb[0]. This is as relevant of a discussion I think to plug it. When it comes to alternatives to the social media/algorithm-ified/data-hungry web-that in my opinion we should have gotten-it’s the IndieWeb. [0] https://indieweb.org/principles

Except now if you say things that a group doesn’t like you just get ddosed out of existence.

Isn't this what the Cloudflare free tier is for?

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by throwawaysea »

As a paying subscriber, I lost faith in Medium during COVID, when they started censoring and deleting posts that analyzed COVID data and information. Those speculative amateur posts often resulted in findings that went against the prevailing public health guidance or scientific consensus. While many were wrong, many of those early amateur posts ended up being correct on some counts as well. I feel they deserved a place for the conversation to be held. I was put off by the seemingly arbitrary choices medium made in deleting content, especially considering the WHO and other agencies have been wrong on COVID repeatedly - amateur speculation and reporting was necessary.

A democratized internet requires that we exercise that democratic right and retain control over our content, rather than handing control to new platform masters.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by dgellow »

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.

Not a static site generator (if that's what you mean), but I personally went with Grav: https://getgrav.org/. It's a small CMS written in modern PHP where the content is defined and managed via markdown files (so no need for a database). You have a bunch of themes and plugins directly installable through the admin interface and the documentation is good.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by cube00 »

scotthtaylor wrote: post #60

Bundle, unbundle, rinse, repeat. Tech's virtuous cycle will forever run...

I've learnt the hard way about the risks of bundling that I didn't even consider a decade ago, no chance I'll be going back to that matter how "do no evil" the next company that comes along claims to be.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by [deleted] »

louwrentius wrote: post #46
jjcm wrote: post #45

Another thing I would echo here is that you don't necessarily need a CMS / WYSIWYG editor to run a great blog. A tiny script that dynamically compiles your markdown flavour of choice and has a nginx reverse proxy in front of it will be able to survive a reddit frontpage hit on a $5/mo vps, and it will be dead simple to set up. If you're looking to move off Medium, give it a try. If anyone is interested I'm happy to s…

This is what I do with my (now solar powered) blog. Markdown, Pelican and rsync. I was using a digital ocean droplet for 5$ a month.

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Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by axegon_ »

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.

Some time ago I asked myself the same question. Ideally I wanted not so much a generator but rather something that is completely self-contained. Essentially add a markdown or html file, commit and move on. Surprisingly enough I couldn't find anything that does that so I ended up building one myself. Doesn't support syntax highlighting at the moment but I've considered looking into it. Perhaps I should open source it and see if someone wants to give a hand, who knows...

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by [deleted] »

axegon_ wrote: post #78
jiggawatts wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Some time ago I asked myself the same question. Ideally I wanted not so much a generator but rather something that is completely self-contained. Essentially add a markdown or html file, commit and move on. Surprisingly enough I couldn't find anything that does that so I ended up building one myself. Doesn't support syntax highlighting at the moment but I've considered looking into it. Perhaps I should open source it…

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