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EddieDante
TL;DR: Medium is a content farm with delusions of grandeur; the content is neither rare nor well-done.
raxxorraxor
It can be good but quality is all over the place.
PaulHoule
Back 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

raxxorraxor
Mostly. But there are people that have interesting stuff to say but are overworked with anything technical.
beardyw
> neither rare nor well-done

Great phrase. Is it original?

beardyw
Sorry, just discovered Google! Ernie Kovacs.
PaulHoule
What 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
Will substack fail for the same reasons Medium has?