Is Writing on Medium and Vocal Worth It?

Honestly, the writing site, Medium, is my favorite from the user friendly and quality aspects with reading and writing. I like the concept, the pay structure, how it works in theory. Why then, am I not writing there anymore?

Deleting my Medium writing account wasn’t an easy decision, and I’ve had some times of regret in losing what I considered the best compilation of my articles online, yet, overall, it was a good move for me.

When it comes down to what matters, where we write makes a difference in our identity as a writer and person. Medium continued to show me that it had much different values than I did as a conservative Protestant Christian. That is the main reason I’m glad I’m not there anymore.

Yes, it is a shame that I had to delete hundreds of articles, all chronologically published, representing my work in a professional and quality way on their excellent writing and publishing site. And, the yearly membership fee really wasn’t very much, around $60, and I probably made around $20 of that back from my article earnings.

Still, writing there felt like writing to an audience that completely disagrees with most of my values and beliefs, and although cordial, the continual slight and suppression isn’t a positive environment. Leaving Medium (and Vocal) for me was to get away from being somewhere I’m continually thought of negatively for unfair reasons. Instead of the site being about creativity among people with various values and beliefs, they are really about catering to creative people with their values and beliefs, which is liberalism and humanism.

Most of the online world, including social media, are liberal and humanistic in their values and beliefs.

Basically, I found it better to not support these platforms that don’t hold the values and beliefs I do. By writing for them and paying their yearly membership fees, I was supporting their platforms, etc. So, if feels good to not be part of those platforms I don’t believe in.

The solution is to write on my own websites and Substack, as long as, Substack doesn’t start suppressing my work because they’ve been infected with Marxist liberalism. Also, to write long form books is still part of the effort.

So, although the perfunctory part of me misses these platforms for their practical advantages and effective concepts in theory, the negatives finally outweighed the positives, and the move to simplify and consolidate with integrity won the day.

Trying to reach the unbelievers with the Gospel is important, so if Christians are led to write on those platforms or others like them, then do what you are led to do. I’m just explaining the reasoning behind deleting my accounts, forever.

Writing on platforms that ignore and hide my work in the dark corners of their sites, isn’t good for my self-perception as a writer. This could define a writer, making us think we are less than and wasting our talents on people who don’t value the same things.

I now write on Substack with The Misunderstood Truth, on my Blogger website Business and Society Articles, and my WordPress website called The Writer’s Lowdown.

Thankfully, I still have all the articles published on Medium for the last 10 years; most of them are already on my other websites.

Medium is mostly a ideological platform for the leftist, not a neutral platform for businesses or creative writing, etc. The only articles that are pushed to the members are liberal; the only writers who make money there are extremely liberal. The more liberal a writer is, the more they will get pushed and make money. This is the same with Vocal, except they pay for views from non-members.

Also, most of the members are liberal, and writer’s only get paid when members read and interact with your articles (for the most part). My articles that did get a lot of views were from search engines, and I didn’t get paid for those views. So, essentially, I was paying a membership fee that was going straight into the bank accounts of liberal writers.

While I wish Medium and Vocal were neutral platforms for all writers (like they pretend to be), the reality is they are extremely liberal platforms that only reward very liberal writers while suppressing and ignoring all conservatives. They claim equality and inclusiveness, yet they actively do the opposite when someone doesn’t believe their cult mentality.