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"We think the mission of Medium — to deepen people’s understanding of the world by helping to share the best ideas and best information — transcends mediums. To date, we’ve focused on article-length writing. It’s how our company got its name: as a home for medium-length writing on the internet."

"By contrast, Mastodon is primarily for short-form writing of 500 characters or less. Today we are extending what we do into the short-form medium (lowercase m) with an instance on Mastodon, me.dm."

"Like all new platforms, there is a learning curve. We are especially cognizant that we are joining an existing Mastodon ecosystem which already has 9 million people. This ecosystem has existing community norms that are especially focused on avoiding the toxicity that have plagued other social media platforms."

Our goal is for the me.dm instance to be a valuable home base for many people.

To that end:

-- If you are already on Mastodon, follow us here @medium

Our account aims to boost smart information and ideas, and also to help find and recommend interesting accounts.

--Tomorrow we will start inviting select authors and publications. If you want to be in the early group, sign up here: https://me.dm/auth/sign_up

@davidaugust thanks for flagging, sharing this with our team to see what we can do on our end!

@medium awesome, thank you!