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Why Medium Failed
- EddieDante 4y agoTL;DR: Medium is a content farm with delusions of grandeur; the content is neither rare nor well-done.
- beardyw 4y ago> neither rare nor well-done Great phrase. Is it original?
- beardyw 4y agoSorry, just discovered Google! Ernie Kovacs.
- raxxorraxor 4y agoIt can be good but quality is all over the place.
- PaulHoule 4y agoBack in the day if you wanted to blog you at least had to sign up at wordpress.com. Medium greased the skids for people who really didn't have anything to say, it is right out of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
- raxxorraxor 4y agoMostly. But there are people that have interesting stuff to say but are overworked with anything technical.
- PaulHoule 4y agoWhat the article misses is that medium "failed" to improve the quality of web by making it much worse. 95% of what people want to say on Medium is "Me too".
- bediger4000 4y agoWill substack fail for the same reasons Medium has?