Medium Should Create A Masterclass On How To Drive Away Contributors

Ever heard of Masterclass? It’s a website where you can sign up for online courses from celebrities and people who used to be celebrities. They’re the best at something and they teach you how to be great too.

I was thinking that the owners of Medium should get on the platform to teach others how to drive away their contributors. They are pros in this department.

The Algorithms Don’t Work

I haven’t been using Medium for long, but I have noticed the considerable change in the algorithms. They make it impossible for you to find new interesting content (like every platform nowadays).

I can see what they’re trying to do, but all they achieve is making you see the same content all the time. I don’t even want to read the same subjects all the time. Just because I clicked 1 thing 1 time, doesn’t mean I’m interested in that topic.

Websites like this work best with discovery and sharing, it’s how they get big. Then they get big, they stop people from being able to share and discover and ruin the platform. Normally you can counteract this with ads, but Medium doesn’t give you that feature and I hope they never do.

Take a leaf out of TikTok’s book when it comes to algorithms instead of copying the…