I can soapbox on my own website. You might argue that the purpose of a soapbox site like Medium is to get read, but getting read doesn't matter as much to me as

I can soapbox on my own website. You might argue that the purpose of a soapbox site like Medium is to get read, but getting read doesn't matter as much to me as it once did. I've had people read my crap, and it wasn't the life-altering experience I thought it would be because nobody cared. What matters to me now is having written. Recommendations are likewise of little worth to me; nobody knows my preferences as well as I do, and any attempt to accurately model my preferences will fail because I gain more by withholding accurate information than I do by providing it. The truth is that I'm not really anybody's target audience.