Reading blogs on Medium feels more like reading advertisements. It makes me not want to be here, which is a shame.
Or maybe it’s about drawing (semi-arbitrary) physical boundaries in digital spaces: I need ways to differentiate between the digital equivalent of talking to someone in the street vs. at a restaurant vs. in my house, and drawing the line between diff apps lends a bit of physicality to those relationships
When I consider increasing my use of Instagram for sharing photos, all I see are people absentmindedly scrolling past the things I’ve worked to create and share. I’m doing nothing more than “feed”ing them so they can kill a few idle minutes. They’re not even really looking. Why would I…
What if I used Medium as a microblog? That would be crazy, right? I mean, isn’t Medium a place for pseudo pundits and self-important twats to post long-form capital-C Content? Maybe, but could it also be where a goofball like me just blurts things out?