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Re:Ask HN: Why does anyone still use Medium? by jadbox on Saturday January 18, 2020 @01:57PM (#22086258)
It's all about exposure and discoverability, as Medium does as good job of effectively giving your blog 'free advertising' by recommending your posts to other users. It would be great if there was a decentralized way of doing this somehow.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does anyone still use Medium? by pier25 on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:37PM (#22086535)
These are the stats of my most read article: https://imgur.com/BAICxnm

As you can see only 8% came from inside Medium.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does anyone still use Medium? by rocky1138 on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:17PM (#22086405)
We should link to each other's sites and form a sort of web ring.
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