"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

I hope Medium will unlock the account of Mastodon founder
https://medium.com/@Gargron

wow. Will look into this.

It would be a nice gesture for @Gargron.

It's suspended because it's a Russian spammer posing as him. Our policy would release the username to him if he wanted it.

On the Internet Archive you can see the original postings about #Mastodon (now in the Mastodon Blog)
https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://medium.com/@Gargron

But in any case, it is in the hands of @Gargron

Thank you.

Well good news about our account deletion policy: I don't see any of that prior history. Current suspended account is definitely a russian spammer suspended for good reason. So IA makes it seem like he had an account and deleted it. Nothing to do then.

Correct, it wasn't me. No need to worry.