The problem is that substack also solves for distribution.

Blogger doesn't but I don't think any VC backed version of this can succeed because ultimately our craving is to have a free space to read quality content and the incentive of these platforms is to maximise revenue which just don't go hand in hand.

So the result is this dissonance.

I hope one day we will see a platform that can both sustain (without the goal of going IPO)

We need bootstrapped Medium in a way.