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A comment on And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet.

Re:And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet by Animats on Thursday May 10, 2018 @02:09PM (#17041477)
"Fix"? With Medium? They replace free blogs with a site where you have to pay to read them.

People like you helping people like us help themselves.

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Re:And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet by CM30 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @04:07PM (#17042497)
Not to mention Medium is a centralised solution, or how it's perfectly willing to screw over people and publications at seemingly random:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/05/medium-abruptly-cancels-the...

If that's fixing the internet, I'm not sure I want to know what breaking it would be.

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Re:And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet by JustSomeNobody on Thursday May 10, 2018 @02:28PM (#17041654)
Not to mention Medium is reader hostile with all the stuff they put on the screen.
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Re:And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet by TremendousJudge on Thursday May 10, 2018 @02:37PM (#17041740)
Since I started using the Web Annoyances Ultralist[1], sites like medium blogs became extremely minimalist. I recommend it

[1] https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances

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Re:And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet by bachmeier on Thursday May 10, 2018 @03:35PM (#17042249)
Firefox Reader View works well for me.
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