I find that medium is even moving articles behind paywall even without consent from author. It was not happening earlier. For example - Look at Netflix Medium blog https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog
There are few stories which are behind paywall. Do you think Netflix would have marked them explicitly behind paywall to earn money from blog?
interesting, so medium is becoming another silo. I knew they were user hostile web actor but their recent moves are horrible.
Let's take this for a spin. Even if you cross post, then if someone tries to read it on medium first and encounters paywall, closes it, then finds your article on your blog and consciously or subconsciously this reader would already have a negative emotions about it and could easily loose patience before reading your whole post. Have you gained anything? no, you have potentially lost a long time reader.
I use Medium (also dev.to) only to cross post my weblogs.
I make sure to uncheck the option that may make my post exclusive in the future, and I also put canonical link[1]. The main goal is both SEO, and options for readers. If they prefer reading on Medium app or RSS or Dev.to than in my blog, so be it!
I’m currently cross posting medium and hashnode but you’ve got a point there. Maybe time to say goodbye to medium. I’m not using their distribution/paywall anyway so all medium is to me is a really nice editor.
There are few stories which are behind paywall. Do you think Netflix would have marked them explicitly behind paywall to earn money from blog?