Cory Doctorow
Fool Me Twice We Don't Get Fooled Again: There's a crucial difference between federatable and federated.
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f
#Bluesky #Threads #Mastodon #Fediverse #Federation #SwitchingCosts #UlyssesPacts
LeBonk
@pluralistic
My vasectomy was a Ulysses pact
Cory Doctorow
#UlyssesPacts are how wise people protect themselves from themselves
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f
#FLOSS #CreativeCommons #IrrevocableLicenses #UlyssesWasAHacker
Cory Doctorow
How things fail is more important than how they work
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f
Cory Doctorow
The Wit and Wisdom of #GeorgeWBush (a very slim volume)
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f
#Facebook #Twitter #Bluesky #Threads #Rugpulls #NonconsensualFuckabilityRatingService
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
Talking about federating in the future shows humility and foresight.
You know what would show more humility and foresight?
Federating right now.
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f
#MoneyTalksBullshitWalks #DeedsNotWords #WeDontGetFooledAgain
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@kas notice how it cuts off mid-text. That's where the login wall is on medium-dot-com.
Klaus Alexander Seistrup :verified:
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@pluralistic any way to read this without a medium account? Medium started login-walling articles at some point, it seems.
Edit: apparently the above could be read as a jab. That was not my intention, apologies it came out this way. It was an honest question.
clacke
me.dm is a Mastodon server where people with Medium accounts have access. I don't know if they can authenticate with Medium itself or if they just have some way to request a Mastodon account.
medium.com does not interoperate with the Fediverse and me.dm holds separate content.
@pluralistic I appreciate that your content is open and on multiple services. I am enjoying it here and on your own site and don't mind that you parallel publish on medium, your strategy is up to you and I'm not contributing even a fraction of what you are doing for the web and the open internet in general. But saying that medium is not a content silo and that it's federating is factually wrong unless I'm missing something.
Meow :verified:
@rysiek @pluralistic @kas I see so I am apparently following people that are using medium already and getting their content. Very interesting.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@housepanther I believe they use me.dm domain for their instance.
Meow :verified:
@pluralistic @rysiek @kas Oh that's pretty cool. How do I federate with medium to get their content. Do they have one that is a bot that posts what their authors write?
Cory Doctorow
@housepanther @rysiek @kas yes.
Meow :verified:
@pluralistic @rysiek @kas Does medium make use of ActivityPub?
Cory Doctorow
@rysiek @kas a) Medium is federated
b) the article is about why I won't set up on +new+, unfederated services, not why I'm ragequitting
c) Everything I write - 5-7 essays/week - are open access (CC BY you can republish them, including commercially) at pluralistic.net, and mirrored to Medium. I write one Medium column every week, which is Medium-only, and pays my mortgage.
It's OK if you want to skip that column, but I think it's hard to characterize my publishing program as ungenerous.
Ben Ramsey
@pluralistic After spending several months on Bluesky and working with the protocol (on building a PHP library for it), I realized it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Even if/when they do federate, the intent appears to be for large companies to run major portions of the protocol.
And Bluesky just converted to a C corp to take on venture capital.
I deactivated my account last week because I won’t get fooled again.
(I now have that song by The Who stuck in my head.)
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