I love to read on Medium but it nly works for me when I NEVER recommend, reply or even read anything that's not outside my focused interest, which is programming topics.

Their algorithm is bad , way too sensible. I read a single opiniated post about politics or what have you and the next day my mostly Javascript / Front End feed is flooded with angry women talking about feminism, or people talking about Trump, or that idiot "SF Ali" writing pointless drivel.

They really need to add a way to make magazines of sorts, to be able to have different feeds. The notion of mixing together all kind of interests doesn't make sense. WHen I want to read about web development, I don't want to read about Trump. And vice versa.

I think the design of Medium gave it a certain "chic" but I quickly began to realize it's just another blogging platform and there are a LOT of badly written articles on there.

I wish there was something like Medium focused on creating ediucative content, where banter and personal opinions are frowned upon. So I can go to a feed, and just LEARN things. I don't know if it's even possible to do that though.