will subsist and profit from ads, but @medium’s ad-free, tracker-free server powered by a subscription is open, honest and a real value with the rest of what a Medium subscription includes.

I honestly believe Medium‘s best days are still ahead. High-quality content has to be protected against LLM theft. So far the only proven way to do that is with a paywall. There’s a lot of great newsletters out there, but for more sporadic and occasional authors Medium has an pretty amazing setup.