Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension

Re:Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension by paulgb on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:11AM (#33998965)

The problem all these sites have is that the domain starts as a signal of high quality — either because they are initially exclusive like Medium, or pay high-quality writers to move over. Over time, they regress to the mean and the domain becomes a signal of mediocrity.

I understand the need for things like substack to grow an audience, but I maintain that someone who really wants to run a blog for many years should own their audience.

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Re:Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension by judgardner on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:51AM (#33999436)

Google results will also rank these “high quality” sites above a self hosted domain. To the point where even a direct string search on an indexed page will never return on Google. Kagi and Brave search do a better job here if you’re looking for content on someone’s self hosted blog.

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