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Medium is a Mess
Medium started off as a place for bloggers and writers of all stripes to share their work, but has since become a wildly chaotic platform for a hodgepodge of often shoddy, barely-legible or even plagiarized content.
(Also, they just demonitized me with no explanation given — so there’s that too.)
If you’re a writer, chances are you’ve heard of Medium. Medium is (or perhaps at this point, we should say “was”) a popular blogging platform that has become a go-to resource for many writers. It’s simple to use and has a wide variety of features that make it a valuable community for writers of all levels to have their work seen, shared and reviewed by others.
However, there is one big problem with Medium: it’s not paying its writers enough.
Medium is a website that is struggling to find its identity. The past couple years have seen the rise of “authors” on Medium that appear to be little more than garbled AI content churned out by bots and regurgitated onto the site passing for an article. Combined with drastic changes to the Medium Partner Program and now, Medium apparently demonitizing some authors at will (ironically — I can tell you that I am…
