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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?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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?