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What exactly is Medium? Articles from it come up in a lot of my IT-centric web searches, and the site limits users to a few articles per month before requiring a login to continue reading. I figured this was a sign of quality content, and editing staff, and the like. Often, though, the articles I find on Medium are either not helpful, incomplete, or so poorly written that I don't bother to finish reading them. Medium seems popular, but why? What do they offer?
Mikołaj Hołysz
As far as I understand it, it’s like YouTube but for writing. Writers post articles. Readers read articles. Readers see ads and paywalls. Readers hate paywalls, so they pay for a subscription, which also gives them access to premium content. Medium takes a cut, the rest goes to writers. That was the idea anyway, and the idea was sound, but it didn’t end up working that well. These days, Medium is mostly your average John Smith (or more often your average Rajeesh Gupta), writing about AI, even though they know nothing about AI and are just rehashing another article that they've just read, which was rehashing yet another article, which was rehashing Wikipedia. All the good writers are on Substack.
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