Why Are We All on Medium?

I find it strange that a group of FOSS-freaks and hacker-types would all congregate around one closed, proprietary platform. I'd like to know why this is.

I suppose the better question is "why aren't we all using weird home-made static blogs?"

It is the new Live Journal, Blogger, Wordpress, or whatever.

To me it doesn't look like the FLOSS people are on it but rather a bunch of marketing types. Usually the new startup of the month has its company blog on it. Fashionable javascript library of the week too. Or is that just because most links I see published here are for this kind of use?

Running a server is annoying and requires a level of technical expertise beyond what most people possess, and Medium is pretty and easy to use.

It's really the new blogger.

Who wants to spend their time re-inventing the wheel? That said, I dont even know what medium is. Most bloggers are using Wordpress, if you look at the statistics of the web, and for good reasons.

Anyone who's serious about creative control is operating their own blog. I think Twitter and Facebook's biggest contribution to social media will be the eventual resurgence of private blogs and RSS.

Well for me, it's a way to post about stuff isn't gaming related. Some people like to read that stuff, it's not relevant on any of my own websites and I can't be bothered to maintain yet another one to host it.

I suspect a lot of other people are the same way. They don't want to set up another website for content they consider irrelevant to their main business/hobby.