[ominous]

For the average reader, there is no difference between medium, google cache, rss reader, archive.is, screenshot, pdf, getpocket.com, copy pasted snippet or printed pages of the same article. In that sense, medium means nothing. Just some meaningless wheel in the whole system, annoying us with their ads. We owe them nothing. Medium is blogger is livejournal is a column in a newspaper is private subreddit is google+ is everything2 is svbtle is obtvse is wordpress is textfiles is github pages is a mailing list is paper.

People ignore it takes some effort to "publish" content. The dissemination of said content is such that we don't really respect, at all, these "publishers".

I don't really have a point, am just slightly annoyed to be reminded such plumbing is, in fact, a business model.