Making a name for yourself on Medium seems to be impossible.
Good lord, that’s your goal in life ? Medium is just a place where you can throw ideas in a readable format that’s all. Don’t take it too much seriously. You’re like those youtubers that suddenly discover they can’t do business with the google platform because they just don’t give a fuck about them.
See Eli the computer guy for instance:
or Fran Blanche:
Youtube and Medium are just a public place where to show yourself, where you can attract people to your own website, your own stuff. This will never be a place where you want to stay or live. Put your content at home, put an abstract on public places.
The biggest mistake for authors is to delegate the hosting of their work on public plateforms. Don’t do that mistake and everything will be fine.