> I was writing on Medium because it ranks well in Google Is this the main/only reason people blog on Medium, or are there others? It seems like something that

> I was writing on Medium because it ranks well in Google Is this the main/only reason people blog on Medium, or are there others? It seems like something that would be easy enough to develop an open source, self hostable version of, but with Google now deranking small, independent sites, Medium would be hard to beat from an SEO standpoint.