So cool to see so many new #Medium faces on me.dm! Just a reminder-- if you come across a 'toot' or a user you think isn't in line with the server rules, you can report it using the 'three dots' menu next to any post or on any profile and it'll get reviewed (just like on *ahem* other social media sites).
You can use the same menu to block and mute other users, mute users' boosts but not their original content, and even block *entire domains*-- yow!
New intro for new server! I work as a Hall Monitor at #Medium.
I'm a #forager, #tarot reader, #plant person, #permaculturist, #foodie, #cooking junkie, and #Sicilian.
I'm also 1/3 of http://liminal.earth, a crowdsourced map of amazing, #weird, and #paranormal stories from around the world. We also host a Wednesday #UFO Watch Party (#WUFO) with a weekly livestream at http://wufo.watch.
CALLING ALL WUFONAUTS....
It’s that time again, for our Wednesday Night UFO Watch Party livestream! On Wednesday, September 20 at 8PM PST at http://wufo.watch or on the Liminal Earth YouTube, we’ll be gathering together to hang with AERIAL ENTITIES.
Don’t miss this one! A GOOD TIME WILL BE HAD BY ALL!
The Crowdsourced Map of #paranormal and #weird stories at http://liminal.earth has been updated with LOTS of new stories!
We've added reports from Germany, BC, CA, CO, MA, ME, NC, NH, PA, SC, TX, and WA. We've got #cryptids (#bigfoot!), #Ghost stories, #ufos and more!
We want more stories! Submit your own at http://liminal.earth/submit, and please give us a #boost/share us with your weirdo friends!
Tonight during #WUFO we showed how to turn a cheap Target crystal ball, fill it with mushroom ink and #UFO water, add some cubes with letters, and use it as a weird oracular device, and got some serious hits. #divination
We also heard some #Seattle #ghost folklore and showed an eerie picture from a recent #seattleundergroundtour.
We played with #zener cards from #kreskinsesp and made plans to do a more formal test soon. (1/2)
Membership growth in July will exceed all of Q2. Nothing special about July other than the cumulative impact of all the changes we made. Kudos to the team and to our authors. They are writing stories that members want to pay to support.
@coachtony this is why I recently signed up to Medium rather than SubStack for my writings; glad to be on board! 
https://medium.com/@tattie_potate
Just lost another author to Substack because we wouldn't let them use Medium to hate on trans women. That's two this month.
Meanwhile, I bet we have 1000 active trans authors writing useful things about programming, management, relationships, psychedelics, data science, AI, gardening, entrepreneurship, art, video games, movies.
We've just posted a MASSIVE update to the Crowdsourced Map of #paranormal and #weird stories at http://liminal.earth!
We've added reports from Australia, Mexico, the UK, GA, IL, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, WA, and WV. We've got #UFO accounts, #Ghost stories, #cryptid sightings, and more!
We want more stories! Submit your own at http://liminal.earth/submit, and please give us a #boost/share us with your weirdo friends!
@jeremy initially I joined years ago simply because it was a place to publish one piece I wrote. Then after a long period of inactivity I started up again in lieu of publishing only at the blog I had at the time. I felt that with my blog I was on a little island that no one would easily find. With Medium I feel like I’m swimming in a sea filled with potential connections—readers, like-mindeds, and lots of folks that can teach me something new.
@jeremy I started on Medium as a platform to expand my audience. Once on it I find it a great place to network & enjoy reading the work of others.
If you’re a #Medium member, what was it about the site that made you decide to sign up initially, even before you became a member? The cool articles? Interacting with authors? Using lists? Writing or blogging? We wanna know!
The biggest problem, IMO, with the creator economy is that it's an extension of the attention economy.
The drive to create every day gets paired with the necessity to manufacture attention.
Very few creators can successfully escape that.
There had been something before the creator economy that was much healthier. The sharing economy. You shared when you had something of substance to share, but otherwise didn't have to be on any sort of content treadmill.
Bet some of y’all didn’t know that the Owl House is real, and is in an urban neighborhood in #Seattle? #OwlHouse #gnomecore #cottagecore
There's no Mastodon slump.
Sign-ups continue to increase -- albeit, not at the same rate as in November -- November was a spike.
While Monthly Average Users (MAUs) decreased since November, it's increased again this month (according to @Gargron).
But what's more interesting is that Half Year Average Users (HYAUs) is at a peak.
And we're very close to breaking 1 billion posts per month!
See chart.
sorry for overuse of exclamation points but just want everyone to know that the Medium Staff picks are always so!!! good!!!!! and if you don't read them you are missing out!! https://blog.medium.com/what-were-reading-want-to-see-something-beautiful-40b7f7a2c5c3
A cool thing about @medium is that sometimes friends ask me "but what do you do about hate speech and racism etc, isn't that part so complicated" and it just... isn't!
Medium's rules are super simple: "We do not allow content that constitutes/promotes violence, harassment, or hatred against people based on characteristics like race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, disability, disease, age, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity." that's the policy, and has been for years.
I love my state and love that my kid gets to go to school in a gender-inclusive community! For all of its faults, our school system at least tries to get this right.
No matter where you fall in the AI debate, this is a fascinating look at how the author used #ChatGPT to code an app which can be used to write entire books in #AI.
https://www.timboucher.ca/2023/03/using-chatgpt-with-gpt-4-to-code-a-book-writing-app/
I moved to me.dm off of my self-hosted instance.
I like the self-governance, but also like not having to sysadmin my social media.
The pricing is competitive too: running my own instance on Dreamhost cost $6 a month, and I paid $50 for a year of this.
My own instance was also really really underpowered and slow.
