Can't speak to the data sci Medium content, but Medium's low barrier to entry is its downfall for programming content; I will ignore any Medium link I see because the articles are somehow nearly always crap. I suspect most programming articles on Medium are just devs employing that advice re. getting hired, i.e. "get your name out there! Start a blog!"

It gives you some amount of easy discoverability if you are just starting out.

How we live is so different from how we ought to live ... - Machiavelli

Towards Data Science. They reached out to me with some kind of profit-sharing offer after I wrote something on Medium a while back. But I have way too much interactive content on my personal site that wouldn't translate to Medium, and I don't do it for money anyways.

It used to be good and provided you with an audience.

It's actually a decent platform. Some people write weird stuff on it but at least they're trying an alternative to ads. In my opinion, that puts them above every ad-powered website out there.

What do you consider to be the better blog platforms?