If you wanted to start a publication would you still recommend Medium? If not, what's another option?
I'm not tech-savvy enough and mostly don't have enough free time to fiddle with the installation of Ghost, Hugo and Co. But at least I know they exist.
For the time being, I've installed Wordpress on my own hosting and with my own domain name. It's not ideal, but I considered Medium when setting up my professional blog, and decided against it for the above-mentioned reasons.
Other option? Self-host using Apache Roller or something. It's not like there aren't 12,000 F/OSS blog/CMS/wiki/etc. systems out there one could use for this sort of thing.
You can use Jekyll / Hugo to generate your blog staticly and host in on Github Pages or your own server. If these are too much effort, simply sign up for a wordpress blog , it works well too.
At least they did it to me ^^'
I want to own my content as much as possible. Tech startups like Medium seem to have a habit of silently changing TOS and eroding my rights.
Jekyll / Wordpress are not THAT hard to use, and there’s a lot of free options these days.
If you care about your publication I fee it behooves you to learn a system that you have under your control - not opt into a pseudo social media site like medium. (Face it, they’re going to end up a “blogging as social media” platform)