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#Medium – the proprietary, #SiliconValley equivalent of free and open #fediverse app #WriteFreely, by the #billionnaire co-founder of #Twitter – now has a #Mastodon server.
It might be a good time to take a look at WriteFreely (https://writefreely.org/) and their hosted services Write.as (https://write.as/) and WriteFreely Host (https://writefreely.host/) and consider owning your own #blog on the fediverse instead of contributing to the walled gardens of the folks who bequeathed you Twitter.
Strong agree! Would be awesome if Medium would allow their users to switch instances like the Fedi allows you to!
@Erik Why would they? It goes against everything in their DNA. They have $163M in venture capital (VC).
The VC game goes like this:
1. You get investment
2. You scale (grow) as quickly as you can, as big as you can
3. You exit (sell) – either to a larger corporation or to the public via an initial public offering (IPO)
Nowhere in the game do you make it easier for people to leave your service for your rivals. On the contrary, you do what you can to lock them in.
They wouldn’t at all! It goes directly against their motive! However, it’d be neat ^ ^