Writers are only using it to repost content and it generates cents on tue dollar because there are no real readers.
I never encountered the true golden age of the platform, but I don't understand who would read articles any more. Members only? The same members who want to write? The ones who can't make sense of the bonkers UI and non-existant feed? Members with no way to interact and message each other?
I cancelled my subscription too. I also can't stand the fake Medium influencers they have Shilling their product.
Substack and other platforms have their issues. There is no silver bullet to getting reads and making money. But there are innumerable advantages to writing here as opposed to Medium.
Yes, it looks pretty bad. But there are some people who still thrive there. I don't know what they do differently. Maybe they just didn't manage to insult the CEO, like I apparently did when suggesting to him that leaving the Friends program made them block me ;)
The very concept of social media has its challenges, you're right. Especially when they are promising a possibility to earn money. Basically, we can't all earn money. They need to come from somewhere, and that is from each other. If some earn a lot, others must earn a little, or nothing.
All kinds of complexities are then set up to camouflage this fact, but logic should spell it out loud. I don't know why Medium doesn't want my $50 any more, but that's their business. Had they still wanted it, they would have tried to make me feel welcome, but that's clearly not a priority for them.
Yes, it's the mid level writers (those who earned between $10 and $500 per month) that got obliterated.
They want noobs willing to pay in order to get started (new territories) and the big creators telling other how to make money on Medium like them (just take a time machine back to 2018 and build am audience).
It is, of course, cheaper to have a few big names and a lot of spenders – rather than many who all expect to earn more than they pay. So you are probably right in this; it is a deliberate strategy being carried out.
They are selling the dream, just like all social media did years ago. But I guess that most social media users have seen and understood that by now. Shouldn't be possible to repeat this phase in history? Probably, Medium will see that soon and not make it through another round of investor capital.
I hear you. Medium is a laughable platform now.
Writers are only using it to repost content and it generates cents on tue dollar because there are no real readers.
I never encountered the true golden age of the platform, but I don't understand who would read articles any more. Members only? The same members who want to write? The ones who can't make sense of the bonkers UI and non-existant feed? Members with no way to interact and message each other?
I cancelled my subscription too. I also can't stand the fake Medium influencers they have Shilling their product.
Substack and other platforms have their issues. There is no silver bullet to getting reads and making money. But there are innumerable advantages to writing here as opposed to Medium.
Yes, it looks pretty bad. But there are some people who still thrive there. I don't know what they do differently. Maybe they just didn't manage to insult the CEO, like I apparently did when suggesting to him that leaving the Friends program made them block me ;)
The very concept of social media has its challenges, you're right. Especially when they are promising a possibility to earn money. Basically, we can't all earn money. They need to come from somewhere, and that is from each other. If some earn a lot, others must earn a little, or nothing.
All kinds of complexities are then set up to camouflage this fact, but logic should spell it out loud. I don't know why Medium doesn't want my $50 any more, but that's their business. Had they still wanted it, they would have tried to make me feel welcome, but that's clearly not a priority for them.
Yes, it's the mid level writers (those who earned between $10 and $500 per month) that got obliterated.
They want noobs willing to pay in order to get started (new territories) and the big creators telling other how to make money on Medium like them (just take a time machine back to 2018 and build am audience).
It is, of course, cheaper to have a few big names and a lot of spenders – rather than many who all expect to earn more than they pay. So you are probably right in this; it is a deliberate strategy being carried out.
They are selling the dream, just like all social media did years ago. But I guess that most social media users have seen and understood that by now. Shouldn't be possible to repeat this phase in history? Probably, Medium will see that soon and not make it through another round of investor capital.