On: Ask HN: Why did medium.com "fail"?

[y42]

Any "service" that offers money for content will fail eventually.

Take most news portals: they fill their sites with "news" to favor search engines, to deploy ads or affiliate links.

Take search engines itself: They lead to SEO which leads to "silly" and packed "WordPress" like websites whose only goal is to drop affiliate links.

And so on....

[ptudan → y42]

Youtube? Tiktok? Twitch?

[urbandw311er → ptudan]

To be fair, YouTube does have a serious problem with millions of dud, autogenerated content videos trying to game the algorithm to generate ad cash.

[wkat4242 → ptudan]

Those are all excellent examples of how a content platform descends into empty hollow entertainment if monetized too much.