What Is The Difference Between Recommended On Medium And Chosen For Further Distribution?

An explanation with screenshots

I’m kind of shy with meta posts. I really don’t want to bug out my regular readers(there are as many as 39 of them, see?) but I do feel this is super interesting to Medium writers, and I would have devoured this information if it were in an article, so here goes.

One of my stories got recommended on Medium. It is an Age of Empathy story. A heartfelt thanks to Aimée Gramblin for telling me to “show not…