Many call WordPress a community, I don't know if I would call it that. Maybe I missed the community part. I consider it more of a content hosting platform and my experience with them for about 25 years is that they don't do censorship. Wix & WordPress & others don't get caught up in woke censorship scandals AFAIK. You pay them to host your website/blog and it's to their best interests to not bump you off until you offer kiddie porn, hack, express virulent racist opinions (probably beyond your typical MAGA crap) or threaten to kill the President. I remember NAMBLA was challenged back in the '90s finding someone to host them when they got kicked off whatever platform they were on due to community pressure.
Anyway, hosting sites are one thing, being able to promote your content is quite another, which is why we may find online neighbours we don't have much in common with politically if we join them. Still looking to explore Rumble, the right-wing alternative to YouTube now being infiltrated by non-woke lefties kicked off by fanatics.
Never really understood why Medium kicked off paying members for expressing seriously non-phobic opinions they don't like, when at the time Ev Williams was allegedly paying for Medium out of pocket.
Vocal kicking me off I get - I'd recently gone back to a free subscription so it was no skin off either of our noses for them to do it. I was already on the verge of leaving it anyway, it wasn't a great platform for me, so it was probably no-brainer for them.
Except they get a mention in my article. I'm sure they'll change the policy after it goes viral, lol
That's a relief. WordPress is definitely geared toward developers like myself and it's logic is non-intuitive.
Anyway, just pointing out there are alternatives for Steve if he wants to leave Medium and set up his own website.
Many call WordPress a community, I don't know if I would call it that. Maybe I missed the community part. I consider it more of a content hosting platform and my experience with them for about 25 years is that they don't do censorship. Wix & WordPress & others don't get caught up in woke censorship scandals AFAIK. You pay them to host your website/blog and it's to their best interests to not bump you off until you offer kiddie porn, hack, express virulent racist opinions (probably beyond your typical MAGA crap) or threaten to kill the President. I remember NAMBLA was challenged back in the '90s finding someone to host them when they got kicked off whatever platform they were on due to community pressure.
Anyway, hosting sites are one thing, being able to promote your content is quite another, which is why we may find online neighbours we don't have much in common with politically if we join them. Still looking to explore Rumble, the right-wing alternative to YouTube now being infiltrated by non-woke lefties kicked off by fanatics.
Never really understood why Medium kicked off paying members for expressing seriously non-phobic opinions they don't like, when at the time Ev Williams was allegedly paying for Medium out of pocket.
Vocal kicking me off I get - I'd recently gone back to a free subscription so it was no skin off either of our noses for them to do it. I was already on the verge of leaving it anyway, it wasn't a great platform for me, so it was probably no-brainer for them.
Except they get a mention in my article. I'm sure they'll change the policy after it goes viral, lol