[toastercat]

I'm not sure what Medium is anymore, to be honest. I want to say it's a blogging platform, but it feels more like a doom-scroll inducing social media platform to me these days.

There are a few alternatives if you just want to blog:

https://write.as https://bearblog.dev

And more dev-focused, but I think it's quite noisy: https://dev.to

Maybe substack is more of a "killer".

[deadvoid]

I just had a flash of epiphany, I think the main reason for Medium's popularity is it's viewed as just another social network, so a perception that if you use it then you'll have much (readily available) bigger audience than using Wordpress/blogspot/etc. It's the reddit of blogging platform. The others like dev.to or hackernoon are only popular to a niche like techies & developers because that's their targets, but Medium aims to general public.

[siquick]

I really tried to like dev.to but the content is mostly low quality blog spam and no better than what is on Medium.

[yuppie_scum]

As far as I can tell, Medium is basically LiveJournal with better fonts and layouts.