• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Surely that’s down to the author though? Most Medium articles I’ve read are completely free and unrestricted.

    • Clav64
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      1 year ago

      I have no idea. But my gripe is the lack of a clear notice that “this is a paid article and you must be paid member to view it”, it just says words to the effect “sign in to view”.

    • hactar42@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Here lately it feels like Medium has started their road to enshitification. I’ve been noticing them locking more and more content lately.

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      1 year ago

      A bit over a year ago, I tried writing on Medium, and what I found was no, not really anyway. Medium was putting the soft paywall on all of my posts, without me asking or benefiting from it other than hosting, though I could choose to make them hard paywalled. It was my impression at the time that they would only let you unpaywall your articles on there if you paid them that ransom, instead of every reader (by being a member). You could argue that the authors choose to post there when there are alternatives anyway, so it’s still on the authors (and I do).