Do you read articles on Medium? Wondering if I should get its membership. Have the member-only stories you read made you think and improved your understanding of the world?

@moonmehta I read articles on Medium but only the ones not behind the paywall (not a subscriber).

@V_ And how are they?

@moonmehta They used to be quite good (in the sense that they helped with my coding question). Nowadays it is a bit of a hit and miss - would say 50%/50% chance between a good one and one just being a bit better than a listicle.

@moonmehta no

@moonmehta I do if they’re open to the public and someone shares a link. I don’t actively go there though. Any user hostile platform like that, I avoid.

Ultimately Medium’s business is making money, not sharing knowledge. That’s just a means to making said money.

@moonmehta Weirdly, I continued scrolling down my feed and saw this post. 😂

https://fuzzyroots.net/objects/c07f2c21-a65f-48ef-9639-7792a025474b

@moonmehta I can only comment on data science content, but IMO, you need to kiss a lot of frogs before finding anything decent on Medium (or Towards Data Science).

Unless it's been cleaned up recently, it's riddled with plagiarism and shockingly poor-quality posts written by wannabes and frauds trying to "influence" their way to a lucrative career.

There are exceptions, but the stench is contagious - I'm always genuinely surprised when I read a good post on Medium.

@amerpie looks very interesting. Unfortunately I don't use Chrome as my daily browser.

@lulu_powerful Thanks. I’ve certainly seen many influencer and marketing posts too.