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The Sky Is Not Falling: Enough with the Doom Porn Bashing Medium

I can’t believe I’m writing this again

Paul Combs
Blow Your Stack

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It is no secret that I love a good rant as much or more than the average Joe. I tend to confine my rants to censorship, Texas politics, and Pope Francis, fully aware that even those are a case of screaming into the void and likely to have little impact on the world at large. This rare bit of self-awareness is one of many things that keeps me from joining the Greek chorus of doomsayers overwhelming my morning feed with stories about how they are bailing on Medium because the site is ripping us off.

I have seen the same drop in views/reads/earnings as everyone else over the past couple of months. I have also been here long enough to have seen this before, only to have things bounce back. More than once, the cause of the drop has been the result of a massive purge of bots/scammers, and there is every reason to believe that this is the cause this time as well (Scott Lamb addressed the issue here).

Regardless of the cause, that’s not what this rant is about. It’s about us.

Let me start with the ubiquitous “I’m leaving Medium” stories that are currently clogging up my feed yet again (one even somehow made it past the algorithm this morning and was the lead story in my Medium Digest e-mail). I say again…

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