>I think people are going to Medium because they say it pays from subscribed users.

That doesn't concern non-monetized posts/blogs like the above.

Who said that? Because I doubt there's any money in it, more likely they're doing it for "more exposure".

> they say it pays from subscribed users

What's the actual money flow from that, less, or more, than 1cent/reader? Does it actually worth it?

I don't post often to Medium. (Though I don't post heavily to my own site these days either.) What Medium's good for is that I sometime need to provide links to articles for various newsletters and so forth. In the general population, Medium seems to be seen (however erroneously) as a more "serious" platform than a personal blog. In any case, the people I'm providing the links to seem to prefer I use it for those purposes.

For deeper, general purpose pieces, I also just cross-post to Medium from my own blog as that seems to drive some incremental traffic.

I get the impression that Medium is pretty low effort, brings in readers, and is fairly popular (mindshare is a thing). I considered it before doing github sites (now does ssl easily), which I’d recommend except that managing a simple blog with git isn’t for everyone.