As I have explored this platform for the last six months it’s clear that the goal is not focus on writings, it is about engagement. It’s the Twitter version of Medium, but it desires to BE Twitter. And not the improved version of Medium that its design initially foreshadowed.
I will admit this is a romantic concept to create something aki…
As I have explored this platform for the last six months it’s clear that the goal is not focus on writings, it is about engagement. It’s the Twitter version of Medium, but it desires to BE Twitter. And not the improved version of Medium that its design initially foreshadowed.
I will admit this is a romantic concept to create something akin to a place for writers to grow and be compensated. But it’s not that. And it’s clearly going farther from it with every update.
Naive? No. The internet needs a place for writers to write AND find an audience without becoming newsletter marketing’s gurus. It’s a real need, not an imagined one.
Am I perhaps being alarmist about this particle piece and update. Yes. I am.
But look around there is a wealth of community here that did not ask for this evolution. They came here seeking something different and we are getting more of the same.
As I have explored this platform for the last six months it’s clear that the goal is not focus on writings, it is about engagement. It’s the Twitter version of Medium, but it desires to BE Twitter. And not the improved version of Medium that its design initially foreshadowed.
I will admit this is a romantic concept to create something akin to a place for writers to grow and be compensated. But it’s not that. And it’s clearly going farther from it with every update.
Naive? No. The internet needs a place for writers to write AND find an audience without becoming newsletter marketing’s gurus. It’s a real need, not an imagined one.
Am I perhaps being alarmist about this particle piece and update. Yes. I am.
But look around there is a wealth of community here that did not ask for this evolution. They came here seeking something different and we are getting more of the same.
Thanks for reading my soapbox opinion.