True, but they certainly aren’t up front about that. They claim to want to get the word out about the best writing they possibly can. In my opinion, and in the opinion of many other writers, they haven’t been doing a very good job at least when it comes to creative writers.
I’ve complained about this before, as have many other writers, but if Medium really cared about creative types then why isn’t there a Medium publication dedicated to literature? Apparently the SEO data and algorithms are telling them that no one reads it anymore. Strange, though when you have a publication like PSILY with tens of thousands of readers and followers.
And from I’ve read, they haven’t been profitable at all.