I bought a year of Medium subscription but I don't think I'll renew it because their suggestion algorithms are bad. If you click on one programming-related article you will be forcefed exclusively the most boring programming crap ever until the end of time. There's like a million articles on there about "programming habits" and "genius daily routines" and "productivity hacks" and "programming career advice" ... all very boring content.
A major issue I see with online blogging is the glut of tech and computing content drowning out everything else. The barrier to entry for self-hosted content also means most self-hosted content is tech oriented.
FWIW using Medium is actually driving readers away because of how invasive their practices are. They pop things up, interrupt reading and in general they seem to have added so much bloat/tracking to their blog that it loads terribly.
If I must read a Medium article I do so in Firefox's reader mode, but usually the friction/irritation just drives me to click close on the tab and move on to something less offensive.
A major issue I see with online blogging is the glut of tech and computing content drowning out everything else. The barrier to entry for self-hosted content also means most self-hosted content is tech oriented.