👋 Hi, this is the official Medium account on our new instance! This is our home on @me.dm, where we’ll be boosting writers and publications, sharing stories, and trying to deepen our understanding of Mastodon and the fediverse.

To get started, we thought we’d share this list of resources about getting up and running if you, like us, are new here: https://scottlamb.blog/list/f4843d1cc80f

#medium, #introduction, #MediumWriters, #NewHere

List: Getting started on Mastodon | Curated by Scott Lamb | Medium

5 stories · Curious about how to get started using Mastodon? It’s not as difficult as you think. The stories in this list will give you everything you need

Scott Lamb
@medium welcome! You may also find this post about Mastodon useful: https://macaw.social/@stammy/109637304403897981
Stammy (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I wrote 8,000 words on Mastodon, Twitter, and owning your data—from the perspective of someone that worked at Twitter for nine years. https://paulstamatiou.com/mastodon/

Macaw-Social
@stammy @medium Thank you! We all passed that around that last week! 🤓
@buster @stammy @medium are there plans for Medium to integrate AcitivityPub?
@xinnix @buster @stammy @medium Wanna know that too - don't want to have to do Substack
@buster TIL Buster Benson works at Medium 😮
@hans Yup! Started last August. 👋
@buster FWIW, this makes me more interested in following what Medium is doing 👊
@hans @buster I've always been a Medium fan but me toooooo
@medium This is great news! Thank you for starting your own instance!
@medium You should verify this account. You have the technology. Particularly since you've blocked whois on the me.dm domain... so there's not a great way to know.
@medium how is medium an open platform (see your bio) when much of the content is behind a paywall? Or am I wrong on this?

@medium Should've added a good bit about Content Warnings, maybe this post? ;)

https://maloki.medium.com/on-content-warnings-on-mastodon-318771be78e8

About Content Warnings on Mastodon

— Energy Management from a Spoonie Perspective

Medium
@maloki Great post! Thank you so much for writing and sharing it. Using the content warning field like an email object (among other things) makes total sense.
@medium This is just GREAT #news and nice value for #Fediverse and #Medium too. Welcome!

@medium

Welcome to the Fediverse!

@medium

This is wonderful news!

Can you tell us what your moderation policy towards Kremlin-sympathetic posting will be?

i.e. how will you deal with accounts on your instance who are 'opposed to Putin's invasion' but point out 'problems with Ukrainian Nazis', 'NATO aggression', 'western proxy war' etc?

A lot of people in the #fediverse who are opposed to #fascism and #genocide would like to know the answer to this

#Ukraine
#Russia
#NAFO
#propaganda

@medium An article on how to log in without twitter integration would be useful. With the rate at which stuff is breaking over there, especially around login, it's becoming a business risk to host my company's blog on Medium if it could break at any time.
@medium Does this mean medium would start federating with us?
Medium creates own official #Mastodon instance

Online publishing platform #Medium has created their own official public instance of #Mastodon on me.dm. In the announcement post of the ...

The Fediverse Report
@medium I would encourage everyone to have a look at Medium’s #Privacy policy. https://policy.medium.com/medium-privacy-policy-f03bf92035c9.
Medium Privacy Policy

Medium Privacy Policy Effective date: March 24, 2022 You can see our previous Privacy Policy here. This Privacy Policy explains how A Medium Corporation (“Medium,” “we,” or “us”) …

Medium
@medium These tutorials are really good, thanks so much for sharing!

This is ironic. It's like MySpace getting a Facebook account.

@medium

@medium Used to enjoy writing for Medium until the owners engaged in illegal union busting. I moved all my writing to Ghost.org and it's been great.
@medium "This is your last free member-only toot this month. Get unlimited access to all the Fediverse by sponsoring Mastodon" Become a sponsor at https://sponsor.joinmastodon.org/
Become a sponsor of Mastodon

Using this self-serve portal, you can sponsor the development of the Mastodon project and get your company's link and logo on joinmastodon.org!

@medium You're a publication service. Rather than dragging more people into Mastodon, thus recentralizing the decentralized web, how about getting your ass in gear and adding federation to your own service?

That's like Medium starting a WordPress blog to talk about Medium. You're madder than a toddler hopped on diarrhea if you think that's how decentralization works.

@medium fantastic to see you here!
@dnf Thank you, happy to be here!
@medium @stux Look! More people / orgs, joining the cool kids club!  

@medium Tip: don't use Medium. It's another commercial walled garden, bait and switch by the people who gave us Twitter and look how that's going.

Venture capital = poison. Don't donate your value to a toxic system.

Find a federated open source alternative instead. They exist, make them bigger and help kill Medium off before Elon Musk and the Saudis buy it

Sorry guys, but that's what Medium is part of.

@medium

Congrats on launching your own #Mastodon instance! Very cool to see that @medium has their own instance.

To avoid confusion, might be a good idea to make it really official by doing a Mastodon verification link in your bio as well 😀!
Tux Zone

@medium what does "new instance" mean, please?
@franm Great question. It’s another way of saying “server” — we now running our own version of Mastodon on me.dm (whereas you’re on the mastodon.world server)
@franm

@medium

Instance is another word for server. Mastodon is decentralized which means it runs on a distributed network of servers controlled by different parties, whereas facebook, Twitter etc are centralized and controlled by one company.
@franm

@medium

Mastodon can also work with other platforms. For example I am on Friendica but I can still interact with you even though you use another platform than I do.
@anders @medium thank you.
@franm

@medium

You're welcome
@anders @medium Given that I'm on mastodon.world - if I went to mastodon dot something else and created another profile, that would be a new instance? (Though for me, I think there's no reason to do that because users on other servers can find me where I am)
@franm

@medium

Yes exactly.

And yes they can find you if they search for you using your address.
@medium “me.dm” is clever.
@medium I love seeing Internet institutions adding a presence on Mastodon like Medium has. They have to since all the good people fled from Twitter.

@medium my understanding of Medium is that they are only interested in virality and profit. They canceled me from the Medium Partner program for not having enough followers, and advised me to get more or be dropped.

I laughed outright at their audacity, but I'm angry that they do this shit to people and take advantage of people who don't love themselves and care more about chasing online fame than I do. The bait and switch was scummy, and they're a shitty company.

@medium On behalf of the Thirring Institute and my mastodon ambassador Skye , welcome to the fediverse. Really nice to see you here!
@medium why is there mammoth's ass in the opengraph image? 
@medium Medium的官方示例,开放注册
https://me.dm/
me.dm by Medium.com

Ideas and information to deepen your understanding of the world. Run by the folks at Medium.

Mastodon hosted on me.dm
@medium - I am excited Medium is on here! This is exciting!
@medium I'm really looking forward to being boosted on @medium, where I write about #philosophy #climatechange #yoga #meditation and my life as a #writer . Please feel free to check me out! https://lucyweirphd.medium.com/

@medium

😀 Hey there! I'm on Medium and changed my name from Colson to Zahrndt. Now I am no longer on the @me.dm server. Can someone please help me get back on here? Medium name is @cynthiazahrndt

Thanks

@medium please add me to list of early beta users. At a minimum we need Mastadon added top of this list.
@medium I just created my account. Excited to be here! ✨

@medium If you could stop being 'Shadowbannium' and 'Censorium' every time nuts who belong to abusive theist cults like Christianity (who have delusional paranoia about demons) whine about something that demonstrates what they are- that would be great. If you shadowban an article, you owe the writer/author a notification and a justification. Otherwise it's offensive bias and rudeness.

https://medium.com/@naturalistic/ayaan-hirsi-alis-simply-wrong-and-probably-mentally-unwell-but-it-just-doesn-t-matter-cf083b50be99