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Can anyone confirm the full post even extends past the fade-out ?

enshitification intensifies. Sorry I know this is a low quality comment. But I think it fits with the irony of everything.

payments.

So Medium accounts aren't free, or is it that Medium is paying authors anytime someone creates an account?

I've never made a Medium account, so I really don't know.

https://medium.com/membership - you pay medium, medium pay author some tiny subset of that.