I'm not sold on using Medium, or definitely not exclusively.
Why would a content creator publish content on the Medium platform when you can't even get the e-mail addresses of your subscribers unless THEY pay you for a membership (that's what I got from their membership FAQ).
In other words, Medium expects content providers to produce top content in order to grow the Medium platform while the content provider has no way to realistically obtain a following that's not directly tied into Medium.
That means when Medium goes down, you lose not only all of your posts but your entire following as a content producer.
I split the difference and setup a custom domain for my Medium blog. I own the content URLs. If Medium dies then I'll pick a new blog format and new web host. It won't be the first time and it won't be the last I'll have to make such a change.
Yeah but if you have a bunch of followers on Medium, all of them will no longer receive updates when you post new content.
Sure, some percentage of them will know your domain name and check manually but you're going to lose a huge amount of readers.
My concern isn't so much with Medium dying, it's spending 3 years building a brand around yourself and eventually figuring out how to monetizing your audience but now you can't because you have "Medium followers" instead of your own subscriber list.
Why would a content creator publish content on the Medium platform when you can't even get the e-mail addresses of your subscribers unless THEY pay you for a membership (that's what I got from their membership FAQ).
In other words, Medium expects content providers to produce top content in order to grow the Medium platform while the content provider has no way to realistically obtain a following that's not directly tied into Medium.
That means when Medium goes down, you lose not only all of your posts but your entire following as a content producer.