I’m seeing chatter about needing a federated blog system for ‘longform’ based on Medium, for the main reason blogging needs social to survive.
I don’t think that’s an entirely solid argument.
1) It sounds like mimicking centralized blogging for the sake of it, and a lot of people I know don’t like Medium because it is a ‘club’ model.
2) What’s a matter with installing a foss blog system (e.g. Textpattern) and sharing posts in a separate Masto account? Like you would do on Twieter.
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@wion nobody needs an open-source medium clone. The web was just fine before this predator ate all our content.
That’s my feeling too. Social media for the sake of it. We need less of it, not alternatives for everything just because it’s technically possible. But I’m old-fashioned.
@wion @remotenemesis well, I think there is a need for a place where people can post a long article without having a blog of their own. In as far as Medium was able to provide that, I liked it. But everything else on top of that was unnecessary. This BoingBoing post lists a few alternatives I like. https://boingboing.net/2017/03/14/minimalist-web-publishing-plat.html
Brutalist blogging platforms!!
@wion @remotenemesis old fashioned just means logical 😊