I will never give Medium a single dollar and big part of that is their lying paywall. It always says "Login to view the rest of the article" or something like that. After you login you have a 50-50 chance that it will say something like "you've reached the end of your free article limit" or some variation on that. Sometimes visiting the same link again will show you the content. It makes zero sense and pisses me off every time I run into it.
I, on the other hand, am happy to see a non advertising based business model and thus pay for medium and find it very good value for money compared to a newspaper.
Do you have specific writers or publications on Medium you frequently read? I’d also like to support a publishing platform that doesn’t rely on advertising but it’s never even occurred to me to pay for Medium because it seems like there would just be so much crap to sift through in order to find the good stuff.
Quite a lot of medium links are on hackernews or on Google searches. I organically encounter it enough I don't need to follow anyone but I do because I also write on it.
But really i don't think I actually consume content by following people . I consume content via social media or aggregators like HN and enough of that contains medium that makes it worth it.
