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Re: Medium/ActivityPub
To speak in the town square you need to be present in the town square.
Mastodon represents a short form corner of the fediverse. To participate in this corner via a medium-length tool would mean participation from people who are blindly syndicating at worst, and having a disconnected experience at best. It'd be disrespectful to the community here.
Instead, Medium authors should be fully here as short form participants, even if all they want to do is share a link.
Posting that as a canned response since it comes up so often. This is why participating in Mastodon is through an instance rather than ActivityPub.
Now, separately, there is an emerging fediverse of longer form content and that would be a reason for Medium to add ActivityPub. But that's a separate goal than what we are doing here.
IMO!