It's great to hear that Medium deemed some publications worth dumping money into - more funded media outlets is awesome! This isn't a zero sum game. But any pub

It's great to hear that Medium deemed some publications worth dumping money into - more funded media outlets is awesome! This isn't a zero sum game. But any publication with one paying customer is taking on TREMENDOUS risk. The reality is the community and not the wealthy should determine what media exists. Medium killed the ability for publications to have their readers pay to subscribe to them https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/medium-publication.php https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/medium-publication.php and killed the ability for publications to run sponsorship (while continuing to run pop up ads on content they didn't own). It was an interesting tradeoff but I am done with it.