Occasionally life will hand you the opportunity for the perfect title. Rob took advantage.
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Tony Stubblebine
Occasionally life will hand you the opportunity for the perfect title. Rob took advantage.
Tony Stubblebine
We added #Mastodon to Embedly. So now Mastodon links embed more naturally on #Medium and every other service that uses Embedly to handle embeds.
Tony Stubblebine
The developer of @IceCubesApp is also one of Medium’s most senior engineers. So I talked to him about us sponsoring development and adding resources. We’d like to do this. The question though is how to make money. Capitalism is a tricky topic around #Mastodon and we’d like to maintain the core of what makes Icecubes great. It’s an open source demo of a lot of important technologies and it works for all instances. What do you think?
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Em (is looking for work) :official_verified:
@coachtony @IceCubesApp There was a demo version so I knew what I was paying for and was happy to encourage the developer with this. One-time payment to unlock some advanced features is good as well (as long as they’re not security or privacy features). Subscription for apps I never do though.
Son of a Sailor
@coachtony @IceCubesApp The continued funding of Mastodon, client apps, and the Fediverse in general is an important topic, but characterizing Ice Cubes as a "demo" feels a little dismissive.
Tony Stubblebine
Bloomberg talked to two of the Twitter founders about Medium and why they believed in the future of Mastodon.
josefresco
@coachtony no links to their new Mastodon accounts though - that might be standard practice (?) but it's the entire subject of the article!
Medium
“I love the idea of an open and distributed — yet connected — network,” Ev Williams said via email. Innovation in social networking has suffered over the past decade because “the major platforms have had too strong of a network effect for new ideas to get to critical mass,” he added. “Now we are at a unique point in time when people are actively looking for alternatives, which is exciting.” |