Publications and spread. I have a larger following on Medium than I have in dev.to or hashnode. So I post there and usually provide a canonical link to the actu

Publications and spread. I have a larger following on Medium than I have in dev.to or hashnode. So I post there and usually provide a canonical link to the actual article in a more "decent" location. The value is the publication such as https://medium.com/javarevisited/ https://medium.com/javarevisited/ which I usually use or https://medium.com/better-programming https://medium.com/better-programming which is a bit more painful (for the submitter). But the benefit is that both have orders of magnitude more followers than I do. When an article goes up in a publication I get huge viewer numbers. Monetization isn't available in my country so I never enabled it as an option. I'm not sure if I would turn it on to begin with as all my new content on medium isn't exclusive to the platform.