Scripting News: Medium gets Mastoicized

Thursday January 12, 2023; 10:51 PM EST

It was smart for Medium to embrace Mastodon.#
It gets people talking about Medium again.#
What comes next? Setting up a Masto-instance is easy. #
Will Substack, who stole Medium's thunder, be next to embrace Mastoicism?#
Maybe Mastodon will become WordPress? Just support Markdown and get rid of the character limit and Masto is almost there. #
I spend a lot of time every day using Mastodon and use WordPress only when i'm testing for compatibility with WordPress. Mastodon is much closer to what I think a centralized blogging host should be.#
I keep wondering how this will evolve. #
Meanwhile I'm working every day on FeedLand. Quietly. 😄#
One thing is for sure -- ActivityPub is complicated.#
It would be a very hard job I imagine to make Medium an ActivityPub node. #
I'm not sure ActivityPub gets you all that much, btw.#
I'm still betting heavy on RSS, just enough syndication.#
Just some random end-of-day thoughts.#

Last update: Thursday January 12, 2023; 11:26 PM EST.

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