#indieweb 2021-11-05
2021-11-05 UTC
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daiyi[d] hi!
# daiyi[d] haha yeah spam does feel like a staple of reality. I has been a really long time since I looked at webmention, so perhaps I should give it another chance (:
# daiyi[d] I bet some aspects are nicer now that cloud functions are popular. my issue with all backend-required features was that my site was always static and I didn't want to run a persistent backend server (why that was, I'm not sure xD )
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[chrisaldrich] Someone has apparently built an alternative interface for medium.com: https://scribe.rip/
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capjamesg[d] Wow. That’s devotion.
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Zegnat Sounds like Drew needs to update his blogpost, now that an alternative Medium front-end exists. https://drewdevault.com/2021/09/23/Nitter-and-other-internet-reclamation-projects.html
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[chrisbergr] Do you think that this Medium alternative will last long? Medium loses a lot of money because of this, they will surely stop this quickly.
# [chrisbergr] Yeah, it's just a thought. I mean, on Twitter it's just ads, but on Medium they sell paid subscriptions. We will see...
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# [chrisbergr] Okay, I still need to work on my communication skills. Of course, I don't know how much Medium loses. I don't know how many people are using this alternative. Certainly not that many.
# [chrisbergr] Medium can lose money as a result, and as a business, they can't let that happen.
# [chrisbergr] That's my thought.
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# [snarfed] Heh, no worries! In practice - having seen this on the inside multiple places - bigger co's like Medium have tons of tiny unusual usage or misuses like this, and fighting them takes time and effort, so they generally don't care or prioritize any given misuse until it gets big enough to matter
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# [chrisbergr] Don't we all use Bridgy more or less? So we are all misusers. I'd call [snarfed] the godfather of misuse because he gives us the opportunity.
# [chrisbergr] When I see Apple suing the small cafe owner here in a tiny town in Germany because of a logo that doesn't even come close to resembling Apple's, I trust the big companies with anything.
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# [snarfed] speaking of which, oof, aaronpk you evidently aren't the only one who lost an Instagram account to the Bridgy browser extension 😦 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bridgy/reviews/1772535/
# [snarfed] not sure what to do here. it's all part of the arms race. I could try to throttle even more aggressively, but that's just engaging in the arms race, and I'll still lose eventually. I could reply and say "my account's still fine 🤷" but that's obviously not helpful. I could add a loud warning to the browser extension install. hrm
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