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by shopkins 5y ago
"Most corporations" don't do global surveillance on the scale Facebook does. It's that simple. It's not about 100% purity. Just not doing this one little, tiny, fundamental-to-their-entire-business thing.
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by shopkins 5y ago
This is literally a way to "self-host your shit."
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by shopkins 6y ago
I've been using https://write.as for years and enjoying it. Perfect for plain text, does Markdown and code syntax highlighting.
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by shopkins 7y ago
The Write.as guys have been working on a good alternative with their Snap.as service [0]. It's tied to the blogging side, but looks like it'll be another simple tool that doesn't pull the same signup-wall crap as Instagram. [
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by shopkins 7y ago
Here's the actual link, so you don't have to give out a temporary email address like I did: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11Db_mfeUocbPSIN52y8h... I would echo that this is a terribly user-hos
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by shopkins 8y ago
Hard to find, but it's here: https://write.as/guidelines From what I've read it sounds like they're not free speech absolutists, but they're pretty liberal about what is allowed.
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by shopkins 8y ago
Just a little feedback: as someone not deep in the blockchain world, I have no idea what Blockstack is, or why nothing happens when I click "sign in" or "start writing now". The page does a good job of describing the pro
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by shopkins 8y ago
There are also dedicated extensions for this [0] [0]: https://makemediumreadable.com
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by shopkins 8y ago
Obligatory life-saving browser extension: https://makemediumreadable.com
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by shopkins 8y ago
It means your posts are sent out to followers via ActivityPub. It explains this below, in the "publish to the fediverse" section.
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by shopkins 8y ago
1. No, services in the US like DDG largely aren't liable for what users post (or do) on their sites, mostly because of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 [0]. 2. We don't know they haven't been served with
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by shopkins 8y ago
Much quicker to have the legal team fire off the standard email threat than get the dev team to reverse-engineer the extension and block it (if this wasn't just an automated email).
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by shopkins 8y ago
Yep on their cheapest plan, for $10 / year. Also comes with SSL.
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by shopkins 8y ago
I'm on Write.as and enjoying it a lot [0]. Simple, privacy-focused, and easy to create multiple blogs. [0] https://shopkins.writeas.com
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by shopkins 8y ago
This argument is disingenuous, and not really more than a projected opinion. Not everyone is this tribal, and people are allowed to be angry when they see the manifest implications of surveillance capitalism without being partisans.
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by shopkins 8y ago
The point, I think, is to send a message. Yes, the damage is done. But public pressure to #DeleteFacebook might force Facebook to be a little less cavalier with billions of people's personal data, respect previous agreements with the F
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by shopkins 9y ago
It does remove the fixed positioning.
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by shopkins 9y ago
This is what makes me lose hope for the web. I see the same celebrity tripe and clickbait on Snapchat, and while annoying, I'm not going to spend my limited time on earth teaching an app my preferences so it can suck up more of my time
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by shopkins 9y ago
All great reasons to leave. We really need to consider who's getting enriched when we put crucial parts of our businesses on certain platforms, and in Medium's case, it seems like they absorb most of the value (I always cringe whe
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by shopkins 9y ago
Those instances were usually resolved, but other times ISPs continued misbehaving, and in fact when the FCC has sued, the courts have actually said that they could've won and prevented the bad behavior under Title II [0] Also, the ar
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by shopkins 9y ago
Agreed. Working for a company that optimizes for cashing out loses luster really quickly. As someone who's been on that hamster wheel for too long, have to say it'd definitely be more interesting to work for a company that build
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by shopkins 9y ago
Agreed. Obviously they have every right to do this, but what are these companies actually contributing to the crowdfunding community, outside of (seemingly) inferior products like the Nebula Capsule [0] or Opal Nugget Ice Maker [1]? Why do
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by shopkins 9y ago
OP mentions a similar platform he made, Write.as, in the README. It doesn't do as much as Medium (I think that's on purpose) but they have a small Medium-like network for authors there [0]. I've been on it for over a year [1]
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by shopkins 9y ago
Man, those were the days. Though I guess it's managed to keep them at the top, perched on top of people who still think it's The Best Place to Host Your Content™
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by shopkins 9y ago
Google has such a vast amount of data on users that its search really can't be beat right now. If you're fully in the ecosystem with mail, maps, contacts, calendar, smartphone, apps, etc. you're going to get better results --
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by shopkins 9y ago
It's because we're skeptical of corporations that hold the kind of power Facebook does -- power derived from their data on literally billions of people -- just as we would be if it was a government doing the same. And companies li
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by shopkins 9y ago
Absolutely agreed on the feeds issue. Unlike TV, the internet as a medium has the capacity to enable both unbounded discovery, creativity, production, etc. and unbounded consumption. Like TV, feeds and their ilk encourage pure consumption
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by shopkins 9y ago
It's completely ridiculous. There's one way to distribute software on the second-largest mobile platform in the world, so we either have to pay whatever cut they shake us down for, or provide a terrible user experience by not even
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by shopkins 9y ago
I would argue it's also, uh, not in their business model whatsoever to support efforts like this (thinking Facebook especially). Better to develop the spec and forge on now, or we'd be waiting around for a long time.
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by shopkins 9y ago
It's their service, they're bearing the weight of being your "straw person," they can do what they want. I see nothing wrong with them writing their terms of service to reflect their values, and conveying them it in a ch

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