DALL-E: A mastodon writing in a journal surrounded by butterfliesThe fediverse is a breath of recent air for writers and social media
Immediately, Medium is launching a Mastodon occasion at me.dm to assist our authors, publications and readers discover a residence within the fediverse. Mastodon is an rising pressure for good in social media and we’re excited to hitch this neighborhood.
We expect the mission of Medium — to deepen folks’s understanding of the world by serving to to share one of the best concepts and finest info — transcends mediums. To this point, we’ve centered on article-length writing. It’s how our firm bought its title: as a house for medium-length writing on the web.
In contrast, Mastodon is primarily for short-form writing of 500 characters or much less. To not be overly punny: Immediately we’re extending what we do into the short-form medium (lowercase m) with an occasion on Mastodon, me.dm.
Apart from being short-form, Mastodon additionally brings an vital innovation across the idea of federation.
Federation is a type of decentralization. Which means as an alternative of everybody being in the identical neighborhood, there are lots of communities that may discuss to one another. The lingo is to refer to those communities as cases. Once you be part of Mastodon, you be part of one neighborhood as your private home base. The gathering of cases that discuss to one another is known as the fediverse.
Our purpose is for the me.dm occasion to be a precious residence base for many individuals.
To that finish:
- In case you are already on Mastodon, observe us right here me.dm/@medium. Our account goals to spice up sensible info and concepts, and in addition to assist discover and suggest attention-grabbing accounts.
- Tomorrow we’ll begin inviting choose authors and publications. If you wish to be within the early group, join right here.
- Shortly we’ll invite all of our Medium writers and readers as an extra service inside our membership. We’re engaged on a “sign-up with Medium” possibility that may make it simple to get began on Mastodon, and to search out folks and matters that match your pursuits. If you wish to be in our early listing of invitations, join right here.
With so many Mastodon cases to select from, we plan for me.dm to have a couple of vital advantages out of the gate: dependable infrastructure and moderation, a brief area title to make sharing your username simpler, higher onboarding for brand new customers, and an attention-grabbing native feed.
Like all new platforms, there’s a studying curve. We’re particularly cognizant that we’re becoming a member of an current Mastodon ecosystem which already has 9 million folks. This ecosystem has current neighborhood norms which can be particularly centered on avoiding the toxicity which have plagued different social media platforms.
That’s one cause we aren’t but permitting entry for all Medium members. We have to make clear the Venn diagram that’s the better of Medium and the better of Mastodon. We now have very overlapping views of wholesome neighborhood norms and I feel we’ll combine very nicely. This navigation of neighborhood norms is why we think about federation to be probably the most thrilling innovation in social media.
If you wish to discover out extra, we’ve created a listing of a few of one of the best writing about Mastodon from our authors.
And naturally, if you wish to discuss to me, I’m all the time listening. Go away a response right here, or attain out to me on Mastodon at @coachtony@me.dm.
