2026-05-01T20:28:42Z https://yabu.me Tony Stubblebine https://yabu.me/npub1lu828ffrx0pgj6kn7dppknn5qfy0yz5m9qg35vl8gwyuzm26j6vquumnj4 https://media.me.dm/accounts/avatars/109/667/307/217/847/976/original/d20065453a81f0e7.jpeg https://media.me.dm/accounts/avatars/109/667/307/217/847/976/original/d20065453a81f0e7.jpeg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv7aglkytr754u5274stjqcz2vle964yv2tur8rs0arf0p6fq69nczyrlsaga9yveu9zt260e5yx6wwspy3us2nv5pzx3nuapcnstdt2tfspmlrmh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswvpu5en7gsdxujmvxamxy87a3syv6mqhj96dvd23p44rqwucuqfgtgsqj9'>nevent1q…sqj9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I never got any sense of media agenda from Ben in the tiny bit of overlap or in the tales of company history. <br/><br/>But even if so, they have no say now and if based on other investments probably have a small financial incentive for Medium to fail. 2025-05-28T17:03:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswvpu5en7gsdxujmvxamxy87a3syv6mqhj96dvd23p44rqwucuqfgzyrlsaga9yveu9zt260e5yx6wwspy3us2nv5pzx3nuapcnstdt2tfs7hhyjm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2y0ywvp5j0w8vnk2rvdmutma4ej6vn9d7yemfshsqa02duuwww2g60fg7k'>nevent1q…fg7k</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah, that all started changing over the last few years and I can give you an official update.<br/><br/>A) there are zero VCs on the board right now or with rights to appoint a board seat. <br/><br/>B) I took over in 2022 and Ben left before I had my first board meeting. Kevin had left long before that.<br/><br/>C) we did a full recap in April 2023 and at that point A16Z lost a lot of their equity position and lost all of their preferred stock (converted to common). 2025-05-28T17:01:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2xlcyhr57mcjmyh7p75vycpyw5sg98v6aqn9304vv7pdsuntk2hgzyrlsaga9yveu9zt260e5yx6wwspy3us2nv5pzx3nuapcnstdt2tfsdex5jn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxm2whxn0ekrfmpdh5pq5alm745gc0sxvj5uh95n7gy7q8tm2cgeqhvpf3j'>nevent1q…pf3j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Regarding Medium implementing ActivityPub. I&#39;ve lost track of my canonical post on this, but I just personally hate the use case. I get that this isn&#39;t universal. <br/><br/>I think social media platforms are separate communities with separate community norms and that syndicating from one into another is offensive. <br/><br/>If a Medium author wants their stories here they should create a post and wrap the link with some context. 2025-05-18T15:03:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxm2whxn0ekrfmpdh5pq5alm745gc0sxvj5uh95n7gy7q8tm2cgeqzyrlsaga9yveu9zt260e5yx6wwspy3us2nv5pzx3nuapcnstdt2tfsgcy9nq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsztp2yjx6u8c6f5dn04e4hzlf5qlecuy64jcm3uukjlvzah7k3y5slu5h8z'>nevent1q…5h8z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But now I think it&#39;s shaken out fine. X, Threads, and BSky are going to be the big town squares. Mastodon will be smaller but the communities that are here will be stronger. <br/><br/>Thinking to our writers--big fish in a small pond is a good strategy for them. They&#39;d all be better off looking for strong community. 2025-05-18T14:59:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfqllh35vc2pz4rars8p5464q754jaesehrqusqm920xhpssgawxqzyrlsaga9yveu9zt260e5yx6wwspy3us2nv5pzx3nuapcnstdt2tfsfpglms The landscape of external traffic has flipped around in the last few years. Here&#39;s a viral post that slayed on Threads, and did pretty well on BSky, but didn&#39;t get anything from formerly important aggregators like Pocket.<br/> <img src="https://media.me.dm/media_attachments/files/114/217/731/102/837/380/original/e24b76fe2c74c42d.png"> <br/> 2025-03-24T13:51:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrvanxgwdl28gcwc68s87k5f3qlc2f35jfnrhmv93n6jr25ekkr4szyrlsaga9yveu9zt260e5yx6wwspy3us2nv5pzx3nuapcnstdt2tfs3pe2ur My keynote from Medium Day. It was overall a pretty positive message but I also didn&#39;t shy away from what&#39;s broken on the Internet.<br/><a href="https://blog.medium.com/state-of-medium-c54d1706a9b4">https://blog.medium.com/state-of-medium-c54d1706a9b4</a> 2024-08-21T19:05:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy737ag3wxy6yj6jynq7k9fgq0nwq4haz89zyjzvguauwxvl3l2aszyrlsaga9yveu9zt260e5yx6wwspy3us2nv5pzx3nuapcnstdt2tfs46snvj I ❤️ paywalls 2024-06-06T21:56:17Z