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Medium is the next generation of magazine where the users are content creators instead of the publishers. You can post to medium and get the distribution benefi
by dexwiz 11y ago
Medium is the next generation of magazine where the users are content creators instead of the publishers. You can post to medium and get the distribution benefits of a publisher that people know and look to for content. Not everyone wants or can spin up their own hosted blog and drive people to it at the same time. Many people want to focus on writing, not publishing, so they use something like medium or twitter.
I agree there should be other publishers, but the doom and gloom over medium is a bit strong. Any publisher, social network, or central repo suffers from the same complaints.
- minimaxir 11y ago> You can post to medium and get the distribution benefits of a publisher that people know and look to for content. As noted in the article, that is exactly the problem as Medium is not an impartial judge.
- voyou 11y ago"Medium is the next generation of magazine" Magazines exercise editorial control, so they provide some some kind of signal of the kind and quality of writing you're going to get. Medium doesn't do that, so in an analogy to print publication, it would be more like... paper? a printing press? Actually, Medium is just like the internet, except there's only one Medium and there's lots of the rest of the internet. Medium is the next generation of AOL.