[potamic]

Another issue with Medium is that you earn money for your content. The problem with this is it attracts a large bunch of people who have extrinsic motivations. When your goal is monetization, you tend to resort to any trick in the book that will move the numbers.

I find non-monetized content generally to have higher quality than monetized ones. The author is intrinsically motivated to produce quality and there is no other goal other than to share what they have with the world.