{"id":38718,"date":"2023-03-08T14:21:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T19:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38718"},"modified":"2023-03-08T14:21:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T19:21:19","slug":"mediums-me-dm-mastodon-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/08\/mediums-me-dm-mastodon-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Medium’s me.dm Mastodon Server"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Benzer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, we announced that Medium is embracing short-form writing<\/a> by launching our very own Mastodon server at me.dm<\/a>. Starting today, we’re opening up me.dm access for our member community. If you’re a Medium member, you can create an account on me.dm<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Via John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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To my knowledge no company with such resources has started a public Mastodon instance to date. I am very uncomfortable with the fact that nearly all Mastodon servers are free-to-use volunteer efforts, funded by voluntary donations. That’s not sustainable. I suspect a lot of Mastodon servers that seem to be thriving today won’t be around in 5 years, taking all of their posts with them. I don’t feel great about the fact that Medium is venture-backed, either, but they do charge $5\/month or $50\/year for a membership.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I’ve been using mastodon.social<\/a>, which is funded by Patreon donations. It seems to be one of the better servers but was down for a while yesterday. I haven’t actually seen Twitter go down recently, but sometimes it’s really slow.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n