There used to be some good content on Medium because it had a fantastic editing/publishing experience and discoverability was good.<p>> Medium, a publishing platform that sought to split the difference between blogs and tweets: medium-length posts, [...]<p>For me, I think it failed because we end up with shallow posts that split the difference between a tweet and a blog. Monetization/paywalls may have accelerated it.<p>It's the same as anything else, once you remove all the barriers to entry most of the content is trash. The value of any content platform is being able to surface quality relevant content. Medium doesn't have any mechanisms for this so isn't better than anything else.