Is Medium A Content Mill? 🤔
I’m not sure whether to count Medium as a content mill.
Content mills are platforms which churn out a lot of content in order to feed the appetite of search engines for quantity and novelty.
They’re similar to content farms, but not the same — they tend to rely on millers to do the grinding (yes, grinding, think about that,) rather than paying a set number of farm-hands and managing the crops themselves.
(…I hope that made sense, because I’m not re-writing it.)
Medium Goddess Kristina God seems to think Medium falls well within the ‘content mill’ label.
I don’t think Medium sees itself as a content mill — otherwise why bother emphasising quality so much?
(Unless it’s a double-bluff, I guess.)
Me? I’m not so sure Medium’s that easy to categorise.
It sits in a weird category all its own.
(And I have to applaud that — because same.)