I'm convinced paying to post is a much stronger source of signal than paying to read. 

Scoresby

econ

I Pay You to Be a Curator or How We Seek to Consume Information

softglitter2d

> _We all want access to useful and good information, and there is a huge amount of it out there, but it can easily become diluted or weakened by fluff or slop. And the result is that we waste our time._

I have this thing with Medium. I got the premium membership because I thought _ok, now that people want my money, I'll get access to better content_ and by Lord Satoshi I was wrong. It turns out all of them where baits, imprecise info, a copypaste from other sources and a big etc., huge dissapointment.

As a matter of fact, all the good stuff I read (currently) at Medium are for-free, not in their paywall, which sucks. And yes, found some gems inside it but not worth pay money for 10% of articles and the rest is written with dedication to attention-whore economics.