I read a lot of “serious” things online, probably more than I should, and I never even remotely felt like Medium had any kind of dominant position. For a certa

I read a lot of “serious” things online, probably more than I should, and I never even remotely felt like Medium had any kind of dominant position. For a certain kind of formulaic, clickbaity, “who needs an editor” kind of content sure, it was popular, but for serious writing? Sorry, nope, not even close, not even temporarily. Substack at least can make a claim for serious journalism and opinion that’s hard to monetize elsewhere — much but not all of it heavily libertarian — but what, please, was Medium’s claim to gravity? The highlight feature?