Ending our Medium integration

Re:Ending our Medium integration by jonmaim on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:43AM (#19035359)

What a surprise: developers getting screwed by big centralized companies. Nowadays wasting time and money building anything on the shoulder of another company is crazy. It's not if but when are you getting screwed: Twitter, Facebook, Apple, this is history repeating itself plenty fold.

I'm just surprised nobody mentioned any decentralised, blockchain-based platform where spending time and money building on it is just worth it for the future.

Have a look at the Steem blockchain: social network like publishing and commenting are free and even rewarded with crypto-currency payouts. And as a developer it is very elegant to develop on it.

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Re:Ending our Medium integration by phoe-krk on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:45AM (#19035368)

> I'm just surprised nobody mentioned any decentralised, blockchain-based platform

What about decentaralized platforms that are not blockchain-based? The Fediverse (a part of which is write.as) achieves this goal of being decentralized without using any kind of blockchain technology.

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Re:Ending our Medium integration by jonmaim on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:51AM (#19035435)

Thanks for mentioning the Fediverse.

Who is paying for server costs?

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Re:Ending our Medium integration by phoe-krk on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:59AM (#19036129)

The owner of each instance pays the costs for hosting a given instance. So, basically, domain + hosting.

Note that these costs can be really low; Pleroma[0] can be run on a Raspberry Pi 3 or a $2.50 Vultr instance[1]

[0] https://pleroma.social/

[1] https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/

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Re:Ending our Medium integration by kaolti on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:28AM (#19035795)

Agreed, glad to see Steem get some love on here.

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