I'm not sure what Medium is anymore, to be honest. I want to say it's a blogging platform, but it feels more like a doom-scroll inducing social media platform to me these days.

There are a few alternatives if you just want to blog:

https://write.as https://bearblog.dev

And more dev-focused, but I think it's quite noisy: https://dev.to

Maybe substack is more of a "killer".