[DC1350]

On Medium you pay for access to all premium content with a single subscription and the writers get paid a portion of that based on their reader count. On substack you subscribe to individuals and they get your entire sub payment (minus fees).

[stuff4ben]

Which probably means the writers get paid more but is more expensive for the consumer. As Medium seems to be dying out, this is probably a more viable business model. I'd expect Medium to pivot to this eventually.