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The best summary and outlook about Medium I've read so far. If you're investing in content solely for Medium, maybe it's time to reconsider your strategy.

It becomes obvious that Medium is a financial disaster for the investors. Getting rid of the high-earning writers was the first step. What follows? Nobody knows.

In the newest Medium newsletter, they proudly mentioned that writers will be able to choose their pronouns in the Medium Bio description. Interesting way to throw money out of the window. Pronouns? Like really? Spending expensive programmer money on such nonsense?

You know the famous Budweiser-inspired saying: Go woke go broke! Seems Medium is next in line.

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Great article and summary of Medium and Substack. I’m a fairly new writer, and I’ve been writing on both of them. I agree with you that the business model on Substack makes a lot more sense. I think you’ve converted me to just focus on Substack. Thank you!

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Thank you, Brian! Right now it’s a much better place to be :)

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It definitely seems so. I'll be around to watch what happens, hopefully management changes and we witness some positive changes...until then, makes no sense to invest any effort...I'll probably publish only free content from Substack and that's it.

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