Notices by Medium (medium@me.dm)

? We're really excited to be fully rolling this out: As of today, our #Mastodon instance me.dm is fully open to all Medium members!

If you're a Medium member, read on to learn how to quickly and easily get your @me.dm account up and running: https://blog.medium.com/join-mastodon-with-medium-e2d6d814325b

Here’s @coachtony sharing more about what we’re up to with me.dm, why we’re excited about #Mastodon and the #fediverse, and what it will mean for #Medium writers and members.

https://blog.medium.com/medium-embraces-mastodon-19dcb873eb11

As @coachtony writes:

”Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm to help our authors, publications and readers find a home in the fediverse. Mastodon is an emerging force for good in social media and we are excited to join this community."

"Like all new platforms, there is a learning curve. We are especially cognizant that we are joining an existing Mastodon ecosystem which already has 9 million people. This ecosystem has existing community norms that are especially focused on avoiding the toxicity that have plagued other social media platforms."

"We think the mission of Medium — to deepen people’s understanding of the world by helping to share the best ideas and best information — transcends mediums. To date, we’ve focused on article-length writing. It’s how our company got its name: as a home for medium-length writing on the internet."

"By contrast, Mastodon is primarily for short-form writing of 500 characters or less. Today we are extending what we do into the short-form medium (lowercase m) with an instance on Mastodon, me.dm."

Our goal is for the me.dm instance to be a valuable home base for many people.

To that end:

-- If you are already on Mastodon, follow us here @medium

Our account aims to boost smart information and ideas, and also to help find and recommend interesting accounts.

--Tomorrow we will start inviting select authors and publications. If you want to be in the early group, sign up here: https://me.dm/auth/sign_up

? 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