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0 pointsFrustratedMonky2y ago0 comments

Medium started expressly for the money. How to let authors monetize.

To criticize it for doing what it was created to do, seems odd.

Sure, there are a lot of software packages out there so any dev can create a new Medium. Who cares? The point was to pull a lot of people to one site to monetize it. They would browse around and find other authors, which is not possible if every dev out there creates their own site.

Just like Twitch isn't it?

Are you saying it is being censored? To what end? What ideology cares about programming. "Those Democrats and their Objects are using the wrong patterns again". "Republicans and their Emacs, holding on to the past".

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sebastianconcpt2y ago

I already mentioned that monetizing is fine if you agree so no point in being triggered by that.

Regarding to censorship your reduction to the absurd attempt is making a non-point here. The cultural war is overt, well understood, widely understood at this point and no human discipline is immune to the ideological mind viruses. These might not change the patterns you code but certainly boycott hiring you without feedback, unconfessably, for the revolutionary goals of advancing a power grab agenda based on either true self-deception or lies.

FrustratedMonkyOP2y ago

Ok. So where in Medium is there censorship?

I actually want to know. Is there a group in Medium management that is removing stories? Which direction? As far as I can tell, it might actually lean right, but I can't tell.

This is first I've heard Medium criticized for censorship, and while flippant, I am wondering how/why?

For monetizing. Maybe I was reacting to a few different posts. I only replied to one, sorry it was yours, but it seemed like a common theme that devs should just roll their own Medium. And I thought that missed the point.

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