Sure, but this gives little visibility and it will be skewed versus a particular audience. ArXiv is a better alternative then, but again it restricts the audience.

Btw, I thought the article was not behind a paywall ... I chose not to profit from it by not activating the option. I need to check again how it works.

For paywalled sites that let users read X free articles, the easiest solution for me was to block all cookies from the site, i.e. block all cookies from [*.]medium.com. Medium will always think that "You have 2 free member-only stories left this month". This has worked for nytimes and medium so far.

Always wondering: when will this fall under some law of 'computer assisted fraud' or so.