Medium's gone the way of Quora for me; the domain has negative associative value meaning I skip anything linking there. Let me explain the negative association

Medium's gone the way of Quora for me; the domain has negative associative value meaning I skip anything linking there. Let me explain the negative association: * Popups and other pleas to make an account. * Half hearted articles much of the time, linked to. * Seeming a platform for self promoters with much noise but little original substance. * That drags everything else down. That said, I never did see it as much. I'm not much attracted to substack unless very specifically linked from another source, My association there's with people with many words that they want to shove down my inbox; people with many words that they want to shove down my inbox are also often more focused on 'readership' than sharing deeper stuff - deep is by definition harder to cognitively access than surface. From sighting a URL I'm far more likely to go with a url I've never heard of than Medium/Substack/et al. While firstname_lastname.tld is very often a sign of quality, in my book giraffepoop.wtf is still > Medium/etc.