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Medium has a built-in audience so the number of people who will see a particular post and share it on Reddit, HackerNews, etc., is higher than if you just host
by joegahona 7y ago
Medium has a built-in audience so the number of people who will see a particular post and share it on Reddit, HackerNews, etc., is higher than if you just host it on Wordpress and do all the marketing yourself.
- xkcd-sucks 7y agoHave you ever met someone who navigaed to medium.com to fin articles, or is this a matter of faith?
- adamisom 7y agoI've typed in medium.com I've also clicked on articles while on the website for a different article
- jessaustin 7y agoIf one ever makes the mistake of giving Medium a valid email address, one's inbox will be 78% Medium article recommendations until one gets quite aggressive with the spam flags.
- CM30 7y agoOf course, the majority of said articles the site recommends seem to be those by someone with an existing audience/fanbase, or which already got a ton of likes and shares. As far as someone without an audience posting an article is concerned, the chances of Medium suggesting your work this way is pretty slim.
- nightski 7y agoIt's quite easy to disable the daily or weekly digests if you don't want them. Not saying I think medium is perfect, but there are better ways to approach the problem then training a spam filter.
- jessaustin 7y agoIf I've tried to turn if off once, and either it hasn't worked or it later reverted, I'm not wasting any more time on it. I can press the spam button without even leaving my mail client. I don't work for these spammers, and I don't owe them anything.