I wonder how mine ai is on the now.

farside.link also offers redirects to working instances and refreshes every 5 minutes

https://github.com/benbusby/farside

I have no idea. But my gripe is the lack of a clear notice that "this is a paid article and you must be paid member to view it", it just says words to the effect "sign in to view".

Here lately it feels like Medium has started their road to enshitification. I've been noticing them locking more and more content lately.

A bit over a year ago, I tried writing on Medium, and what I found was no, not really anyway. Medium was putting the soft paywall on all of my posts, without me asking or benefiting from it other than hosting, though I could choose to make them hard paywalled. It was my impression at the time that they would only let you unpaywall your articles on there if you paid them that ransom, instead of every reader (by being a member). You could argue that the authors choose to post there when there are alternatives anyway, so it’s still on the authors (and I do).

You can really see why they put the hyphen in. expert sexchange would be a very different website.

Ah, yeah, that one site known to be one of the reasons Stackoverflow was created

For your consolation, many “answers” there are poor and just copy pasted from some open website anyway.

You have to realize that their business model is marking questions as answered so that they can paywall access and lure people in. This might affect their quality control…

No shock there. They have been that way since 2007. It is why the SpiceWorks community took so much.

I used to block search results from that site for this very reason. I don’t seem to ever get anything from them anymore though.

Thanks. I'll make sure to stay away from there.

Qwant is just a bing frontend with a bit better privacy, bit they still share some infos:

Why are you transferring data to Microsoft, and what data is it?

Microsoft provides some of the search results you see on our pages, and provides ads to the keywords in your search inquiry. This means that we need to send Microsoft some information related to your search that allows our partner to return results and ads relevant to that search, and to prevent fraudulent clicks or other activities that are not permitted by our Terms of Use.

In order to detect fraud, Qwant uses a specialized service offered by Microsoft, which does not have access to the keywords of your search. Only your IP address and the browser (your “User Agent”) are communicated to this specialized service to calculate a fraud probability score. Keywords are sent separately to another service that does not know your IP address.

Source

PS: The results are Bing's so they are biased

There are alternative frontends for Medium called Scribe and LibMedium

They were so good at sex changes, they finished up.