Definitely a possibility. Where we ended up landing is that Mastodon is culturally short form. From prior experience just syndicating into a short form ecosystem is kind of lame even if the ActivityPub protocol supports it. So if we have Medium authors on this part of the fediverse then we want to encourage them to be fully there.
The medium-length fediverse, i.e. blogs and articles, is still emerging and for us is also a much more complicated product question. But definitely open to it.
It seems like this could be handled by having a short post with a link to the article for each article that authors want to publish that way.
This is essentially how blogs are promoted on Twitter and Mastodon already (though people often create longer threads) so it's a "paving the cowpaths" strategy.
Since you can do it already, the only difference would be having an official short post representing the article, which would be a focal point for discussion about the article.
For better or worse. Maybe having a focal point for article discussion is bad?
Tony, you should have a talk with the writefreely/write.as folks (Matt Baer; I think it might just be one guy but it might be a small team as well now) because they're in this space and may have experiences to share with you.
Definitely a possibility. Where we ended up landing is that Mastodon is culturally short form. From prior experience just syndicating into a short form ecosystem is kind of lame even if the ActivityPub protocol supports it. So if we have Medium authors on this part of the fediverse then we want to encourage them to be fully there.
The medium-length fediverse, i.e. blogs and articles, is still emerging and for us is also a much more complicated product question. But definitely open to it.