The issue I grapple with there is the large scale reduction in visibility of my stories. I’ve been persisting so far but given I don’t have thousands of followers, publishing something on my timeline instead of submitting it into a publication is a 10x reduction in readership. It is depressing sometimes to find what you think is your best work struggling to get 20 reads. What a writer wants most of all is to be read and whether intentional or not, the Medium paywall is currently at loggerheads with that existential desire.