Medium embraces Mastodon
Tony Stubblebine,
Medium,
Jan 13, 2023
We saw Tumblr announce support for ActivityPub late last year and today we're reading that Medium will offer Mastodon integration for (some of) its authors. "Mastodon is an emerging force for good in social media," writes Tony Stubblebine, and "this ecosystem has existing community norms that are especially focused on avoiding the toxicity that have plagued other social media platforms." So they're quite understandably being cautious. Expect to see more of this. In this same week, WordPress has a new Mastodon autopost plug-in. And even more interesting, Cloudflare is developing Wildebeest, "an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server whose goal is to allow anyone to operate their Fediverse server and identity on their domain without needing to keep infrastructure, with minimal setup and maintenance, and running in minutes." This is important because 'support' for Mastodon and ActivityPub has to be more than just dumping posts into the feed; it needs to include receiving replies and supporting conversation.
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