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Curation No More
Medium gets rid of topics in favor of tags. That’s not a coincidence.
Medium announced that they’ll get rid of topics altogether and will solely focus on tags. For a seamless transition, they’ve already been transitioning existing topics to tags. That means you don’t have to change anything. Good news!
This move has various reasons, I would imagine. I’m more interested in the implications though.
A bigger move
There’s a bigger move I’m expecting to happen pretty soon. One that relies on this change from topics to tags.
Medium will completely remove curation.
Instead, they will introduce, or more precisely improve, an auto-curation algorithm. I say improve because I’m positive that this algorithm has already been in place and working for quite a while. Why do I think that? Because many of my stories were curated instantly after publishing. I doubt that human editors were that fast.
Also, some big publications have an auto-curation feature. Right when your story gets published with one of those publications, it gets distributed as well.
Why auto-curation
Think about it! Before this, curation meant human editors curated stories in fitting topics…
