I have a self hosted blog currently, and I’m considering posting it on medium.com
I blog mostly for fun and I have not tried to monetize it. Are there any reasons to not use medium?
What about alternatives like substack?
It requires an email to even read the first article, or at least has appeared to any time I’ve tried to go over there and read stuff
Most places that do that, I am fine putting my email into, sometimes even paying for them, but for some reason I don’t understand, medium.com has some kind of anti Feng shui that makes me just hit the back button annoyed any time I click on an article and the thing pops up. It’s like somehow their web site design has it timed and positioned at the perfect psychological moment to create irritation
It is purely irrational and purely only my personal reaction to it but that is how I react to it
likewise. i hate it
I just skip Medium due to the walled garden. Even worse than Reddit. I have never come across a link to substack… are they an even higher wall that search engines are stymied by?
I fail to get why you think putting your stuff on Medium is a good idea.
The appeal I see in medium is more visibility for my content. I write for fun anyways, would be cool for more people to see it.
I’m liking Medium less lately because of the number of pop-ups. I have to close three, maybe two sometimes, to get to the content.
I get the appeal of visibility, but I’d still suggest trying a WriteFreely instance; you’ll get (and support) federation, and you can still self-promote on Lemmy and Mastodon - I’ve yet to see any real push-back on self-promotion, unless it’s a controversial position, such as taking a strong stance on a divisive topic and acting as if you’re an authority when you aren’t. And even then, the push-back is the same whether or not it was self-promoted.
I never come across Medium articles unless someone creates a Lemmy or Mastodon post linking to it, anyway, so I’m guess you’re expecting higher visibility on the Facebook/X platforms?
It’s fine but self-hosting is better.
Please continue running your own blog. Don’t give some other company “free” content.
I hate that the entire modern internet is controlled by a few corporates.
The downsides to running your own blog are lack of technical knowledge/interest, and reduced monetization. Since you’ve already overcome the problem of technical knowledge, and you aren’t looking for monetization, please continue running your own blog.
As for visibility, maybe your could start sharing links on lemmy? Perhaps you could start a dedicated community of your own if you’re hesitant to post it on other existing communities.
The cool thing about substack is that it’s part of a community of writers. Especially with the “notes” aspect.
How’s that different from medium?
Well, on substack, that community of writers includes nazis who are able to monetize their hate through that platform. So, if that’s what you’re looking for…
Does Medium have a platform where writers and readers can all talk to each other? Substack has “notes”, their twitter clone.
I would rather post something on a neocities or custom website
I’m not making a Medium account just to read some half assed blog post. That’s my biggest gripe with the service.
It’s not like running a Ghost instance is particularly hard or resource consuming.
I personally like the static site generator blogs people host on GitHub Pages, at least those don’t demand my personal information just to read a blog post.
As someone once said:
“It’s called medium, as the articles are neither rare nor well-done”
