Notices by Tony Stubblebine (coachtony@me.dm), page 2

@nelson @anildash well, not financial. But as we know there are many ways to be compensated including status and influence. I don't think there is any meaningful exchange back to the author.

@nelson @anildash

Yeah, I get it. We are projecting the future and there is no way to know who is right because we aren't going to A/B test this.

I lean more toward "let's have a Butlerian Jihad" but I don't fault you for leaning the other way.

Is there any benefit to the author of letting a for profit LLM like OpenAI spider and consume their writing? I can’t think of any.

If that’s true, then should we be rethinking Creative Commons licenses? I’m wondering if the current one we use at Medium is obsolete.

At least with something like Google there was an exchange of value: contribute to their search results and get traffic back.

@fediversereport @coachtony @medium @alex yes, you need to maintain your membership to stay on the server.

"We want to be the best place to read and write on the Internet..."

Here's TechCrunch on our #Mastodon launch today.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/06/medium-launches-a-premium-mastodon-instance-as-a-membership-perk/

And the soft launch for letting people into this instance begins. Our plan is to take a couple of weeks, invite people in in tranches, learn about scaling from direct experience.

Launch #4 is tomorrow. We're really starting to get into two of the bigger initiatives that we started last year. One is redoing our recommendation system to be curator driven so that it has human intelligence. And then the other, starting tomorrow, is to organize our back catalog. To call it our 75M+ posts a knowledge base leaves out fiction and poetry. So maybe it's a Codex of Inspiration, Knowledge and Wisdom. In any case, we're breaking ground on organizing it tomorrow. Go #Medium!

I got my start in publishing at a respected company that was respected specifically for being the opposite of free speech.

The entire brand was based on quality, accuracy and relevance.

The way we did that was by building a massive amount of editorial machinery. High standard for who could speak, i.e. authors. Heavy handed editing. Community contributed corrections.

Nobody ever cried censorship.

Consider "free speech" as a loud rallying cry that emerges from the creator side of content marketplaces.

What then is the countering rallying cry from the consumer side of content marketplaces? As a reader, what is it that we actually want?

Meanwhile, one of my formational political experiences was hearing my dad, who worked in the music industry, rant against parental advisory labels for music.

As I internalized it, this was a slippery slope to outright censorship and massive government overreach by democrats (Tipper Gore).

Everyone should have a voice, even if they are wrong. Otherwise we get tyranny.

So I still see the value in free speech. It's about liberty. It's participation--wrong speech (2+2=5) can lead to discussion and increased understanding. It's about distrust in institutions.

But here we are in practice. With amplification, wrong speech can amplify wrong understanding.

That doesn't feel right. And so where I ended up settling is that free speech is primarily a tactic.

What we really want is better lives.

@supernovae Here's one. I got a ton of rate limit errors after moving my followers because notifications of each follow were coming too quick. This is a bug in the web client. What's the protocol? File a bug? Try to file a fix?

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.

When I talked to a reporter I tried very hard to avoid making it seem like #Medium on #Mastodon is an experiment. There's a learning curve, sure. But we are 100% that Mastodon has long term legs independent of any exodus from other social media platforms.

Bloomberg talked to two of the Twitter founders about Medium and why they believed in the future of Mastodon.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-01-12/elon-musk-s-twitter-drives-even-its-early-employees-to-mastodon?cmpid=BBD011223_TECH&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230112&utm_campaign=tech

@jlori @medium wow. Will look into this.

@jlori @medium @Gargron

It's suspended because it's a Russian spammer posing as him. Our policy would release the username to him if he wanted it.

@jlori @medium @Gargron

Well good news about our account deletion policy: I don't see any of that prior history. Current suspended account is definitely a russian spammer suspended for good reason. So IA makes it seem like he had an account and deleted it. Nothing to do then.

So this custom local emoji works on other servers or doesn't? :medium:

Planning this to be my final instance move. Prior accounts w/ posts are in these two places:

https://medium.social/@coachtony
https://mas.to/@coachtony