Medium lets you make passive income from posts and even pyramid schemes subscriptions which joined for your article, so you get a payment for every month they remain subscribed. It is very hard to just quit using medium.
If you have any firsthand experience, could you tell what is the order of magnitude of such payments? $1/mo? $10? $100?
Not first hand, but I think you get a bit less than 2.5 usd/mo per ongoing sub. So it's on the lower end.
That seems pretty high to me, <10 thousand subs is all it takes to replace the average income
Don't forget that these subs aren't like YouTube subs. They are shown that annoying popup while visiting your blog page, and they complete their subscription just to see what you've published. And they have to keep on paying afterwards.
I get that for people trying to make a living off of their content, but for companies issuing a press release, nine times out of ten I’ll bounce before clicking it away.