Brian Szuter
Tony Stubblebine
Peter Bronez@coachtony welcome to the Fediverse!
Why did you chose to stand up a co-branded Mastodon server instead of adding ActivityPub support to the existing Medium platform?
Tumblr seems to be going in the second direction, but they haven’t shipped yet.
Marc Creighton 
@coachtony agreed! I would love to see it become more mainstream.
Mark Kethisouaran@coachtony Fully agree and great to see Medium joining this new adventure!
Arindam BasuTony, are we going to see Medium itself federate using ActivityPub protocol?
Tony Stubblebine (@coachtony@me.dm)
Re: Medium/ActivityPub To speak in the town square you need to be present in the town square. Mastodon represents a short form corner of the fediverse. To participate in this corner via a medium-length tool would mean participation from people who are blindly syndicating at worst, and having a disconnected experience at best. It'd be disrespectful to the community here. Instead, Medium authors should be fully here as short form participants, even if all they want to do is share a link.
Thanks for the response, and I understand your point, that the two would necessarily be separate in their format and patterns of what is posted in each ‘medium’, if you will.
At the same time, Medium already allows for short form comments (which can be saved as posts) and then there are posts (longer form). I guess I am trying to get my head around as to what will this separation between Medium as “Medium as it exists” and “Medium in Mastodon (not individual users)” will achieve, without Medium with ActivityPub. OTOH, had Medium used ActivityPub, it’d be integrative. Anyway, a space to watch I believe.
Alan Buxey@coachtony still no 'share' button for Mastodon/Fediverse though...
@alanbuxey I expect to add that, along with rel=me urls.
OlavLike this:
Journalist profiles on the Washington Post's website can now include Mastodon links. Here's what it looks like: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/drew-harwell/
Seth Johnson 
@alanbuxey @coachtony isn’t that tougher to do? Since there is no “one” company there’s no “one” website and everyone has a different url link. Everyone would need a different link on every webpage based on where their instance is.
Brian Hawthorne@coachtony What we really need is Mastodon on Medium. Add ActivityPub support to Medium and it becomes a much more powerful tool.
@bhawthorne I just wrote a canned response for this! Lots of people ask and we thought about it a ton:
https://me.dm/@coachtony/109677777164690679
https://me.dm/@coachtony/109677777164690679
Tony Stubblebine (@coachtony@me.dm)
Re: Medium/ActivityPub To speak in the town square you need to be present in the town square. Mastodon represents a short form corner of the fediverse. To participate in this corner via a medium-length tool would mean participation from people who are blindly syndicating at worst, and having a disconnected experience at best. It'd be disrespectful to the community here. Instead, Medium authors should be fully here as short form participants, even if all they want to do is share a link.
@coachtony Thank you! That’s an excellent and well-reasoned point.
Lloyd Lemons@coachtony Hey, Tony! Welcome.
Greg Palmer@coachtony This is really exciting! @medium is the organization I'd most hoped would step up to the plate in helping define the future of short-form social.
Holly Jahangiri@coachtony If they thought that it was an "experiment," maybe it's because it's been done before. https://mastodon.xyz/@medium
@hollyjahangiri I think that’s a fake account
@hollyjahangiri how did you know I needed it? May I use it?
@coachtony You may. Please credit me AND Midjourney AI. 😁
Graveyard Detective@coachtony Thanks Tony. Nice to see Medium on here. A really great move I believe.