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.
@wion @remotenemesis old fashioned just means logical 😊
@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!!
@remotenemesis
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.