"When you give in to the default, and just go ahead and post to Medium, you're stifling the open web. Not giving it a chance to work its magic, which depends on

"When you give in to the default, and just go ahead and post to Medium, you're stifling the open web. Not giving it a chance to work its magic, which depends on diversity, not monoculture." If you have read enough of Daves posts you'll realise this is the Internet version of what happened with Microsoft and Apple. Something about absolute power and corruption. Dave has been remarkably consistent in this observation over the years. "Well, he did put it on Medium and sent me a link, and I sent back a comment saying that I was worried he'd do that, and unfortunately while I love his post I am reluctant to point to it on Medium. I asked if he'd consider putting it somewhere else. He asked where else. Hence the tweet." One reason not to put things on medium is the poor url design. Try remembering then typing this url into your browser ~ https://medium.com/@davewiner/anywhere-but-medium-5450cb19f2c1#.2gv2klp7h https://medium.com/@davewiner/anywhere-but-medium-5450cb19f2... The design is ok. We can understand up to the end of the title, 'anywhere-but-medium' then we get robot vomit '5450cb19f2c1#.2gv2klp7h', junk parts of the url no use to anyone except machines.