This article is on Medium, which has a paywall. I’m a member, but not logged in. I was able to read it so it may depend on how many times you’ve read Medium articles.
One point he made that I found interesting was:
So, in light of all of this, should Reddit even exist? Is there really a point to a web forum in 2023? Aren’t we past all that?
He thinks we are. I never thought about it before. Maybe in the case of some Reddit subreddits and other forums, but I don’t think so in general. I’ve got a lot great information from forums.
I don’t get the medium critic either. If medium paid someone for their content, sure, they should have the right to host it even the writer now disagrees with them, but if they a platform and sharing some profits or no profits with the creator, pound sand, they absolutly get to hold their content hostage. They have every right to move their free work or stop sharing their free work where ever they feel like.
also he mixed up the analogy
This is much more like a medium poster taking down their own posts because they are protesting the CEO’s actions, and the CEO forcing the blog back open with “We have a responsibility to all our random readers to ensure they can always access your content”
It’s a power flex against people who deluded themselves into thinking they had power or owned the content they posted (he even says so in the blog, a quick read of reddit’s ToS will prove that wrong)
And there’s even less justification for it than when NPM stole code repo’s from pissy devs who wanted to shut their own libraries down.