Medium pays writers and is failing. Reddit is mostly unpaid writers and is doing fine. People write for free and are paid in reputation. No need to pay them anything of value.
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Medium pays writers and is failing. Reddit is mostly unpaid writers and is doing fine. People write for free and are paid in reputation. No need to pay them anything of value.
Right - medium has it's own set of problems, which have nothing to do with curation or readership. They failed to find a viable business model to keep paying writers. Also, not all writers on medium are paid, you can go signup and start writing right now if you wanted. They attract non-paid bloggers through an extremely polished and easy to use author experience, and then authors go out and promote themselves on other platforms.
Luckily it'll look a lot more like reddit (I hope) once we get communities here sometime this year.