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i was thinking recently about medium and wordpress, as i’ve started cross-posting a few articles from the latter to the former. medium’s writing interface really is as easy to use as everyone says, but what i value most is seeing who has interacted with it: the names attached to the ‘recommends’, and the easy access to statistics. i miss this when writing on my wordpress blogs, and it led me to consider how, with jetpack, wordpress could easily make a site to aggregate self-hosted content into a medium competitor.
then i went to wordpress.com and found out that, quietly, that’s exactly what they have built. you can write posts on your self-hosted blog that will be published to the centralised site; you can ‘like’ and ‘share’ and follow authors to create your own feed of interesting content, enhanced by featured and recommended posts. all the ingredients are there to be a medium competitor, except that it’s all currently private—you need an account to create a feed, no content is findable by default.
i’m not sure how much of this wordpress have announced, or even if making a public medium competitor is their plan at all. but it’s interesting to see that all of the infrastructure is in place for such a move—a decentralised medium is an exciting notion.

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I found seventy-eight "a"s in the provided passage.
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