As for me, when my earnings dropped in January, I decided to focus on Substack. I now have Bestseller status there. I decided I will occasionally post a story here because I have almost 16K people followers on Medium and I don't want to abandon any of them -- but my new stories here, since the recent changes, make me almost nothing. So when you read work here, you can know whoever posted it is doing it for YOU and probably making very little money.