I can't count the number of times I've stopped reading a Medium article because it contained information that wasn't just objectionable but was actually downright false.

Many Medium articles are even stolen verbatim from other websites. It's a cancer.

I think this follows Sturgeon's law: "90% of everything is shit".

Is it perhaps even more self-published blogs? Probably. I think Malcolm Tucker wasn't completely wrong in his assessment of blogs[1]. Yet at the same time, it also enabled a large group of people to write and get some form of audience who never would have otherwise.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFox3SRoVtw

There are a lot of spaces where I see this. Standup comedy (in France at least, can't speak about the US because it's older) have seen a lot of new people due to a booming scene, but after a few years people are all saying the same thing, its hard to keep going. Life is not what it seems and ease of doing doesn't guarantee long term.

I wanted to make blogs but it was not the right spirit, also it distracts you from doing 'actual' things. Anyway time will settle things out.

Oh it's definitely the case in North America too. Comedy is hard and you can't do it all without an audience, so the quality at open mics is always going to be mostly terrible. Same with any artistic endeavour really, but in most things beginners can just bumble along in private. Not so with comedy. If you're into learning it, I would really suggest a course with enough people that you get a semi-private open mic every week. It's a great way to test material on a semi-realistic audience. I've done a couple here where 2/3s of the class time was our private open mic, like a comedy version of toastmasters, and that alone was worth the money. (Hell, given you have to buy at least a drink at an open mic, it wasn't even expensive!)

I'm really not into it besides my own little private open mics in the shower (80% approval rate). It was just the fact that I saw the young dudes star just before YouTube came along and since, between podcasts, or other videos, you can witness their thought process, beliefs, aging and evolution about their business. The usual I want to follow my dreams then 'i need an average quality act so to attract enough people regularlu', the struggle of renewal. Etc etc

> It really makes discovery of good content harder

You make a fair point but do we always have to say something meaningful. Sometimes reading about some randoms day and how their dog was doing a dog version of a crip walk is mindless entertainment before switching context into that behemoth cpp file waiting for you to refactor and debug.

This is a low effort comment but my point is we don't always need to have all the lights on.