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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.
@aral Mastodon needs to support _reading_ ActivityPub object types other than Note. Forks like HomeTown are doing it but Mastodon is holding us back.
@naught101 @aral The object type to replicate Medium would be Article which is for long-form content. HomeTown is a fork of Mastodon that lets users read Articles. WriteFreely lets users write Articles.
Here are all the Object types in the spec. A shared vocabulary like this is what enables all users of Mastodon, PeerTube, WriteFreely, Pixelfed, Gitea to follow and reply to each other.
Mastodon is most dominant and only supports "Note". Which has forced all other ActivityPub software to shoehorn all kind of content into a "Note", even though there's a rich vocabulary that's been standardized.