Simon Willison on Nostr: I don't trust Medium because they added a paywall / registration wall to content that ...
I don't trust Medium because they added a paywall / registration wall to content that had previously been published
Substack are too young to have proven themselves as long-term trustworthy stewards of content
I used to trust Twitter for long-term content availability, but then they got bought by someone who clearly doesn't care about that at all (and threads are now hidden behind registration walls)
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