Had you noticed that in your LinkedIn feed, 1 post out of 4 is sponsored content? Among the 3 remaining posts, you will most certainly find:
- A recruiter’s testimonial full of false modesty, telling how he managed to overcome his prejudices and give the person in front of him a chance
- An entrepreneur’s message explaining that ever since he started getting up early, every door has opened for him
- A click-bait optical illusion post to attract likes
- An official post from a large corporation to show off its innovative new greenwashing idea
- Colleagues’ work anniversaries
And when you finally come across an interesting, in-depth, detailed, sourced article, it is quickly swept away by the flow of other posts.
And worse, if you want to find that article again by searching directly on the profile of the person/company that posted it, you often give up after a few seconds, faced with the complexity of the user journey on offer.
Is this really your idea of a social network that helps its members grow?
Is this really the best way to discover/dig deeper into new subjects and become better, professionally and socially?
Aren’t you tired of scrolling through your LinkedIn feed to find interesting content?
An alternative exists: medium.com.
It is an American platform created in 2012 for the curious, by the curious, and whose mission is to “help you find compelling ideas, knowledge, and perspectives”.
Medium today has nearly 120 million readers, and hundreds of thousands of professional and independent writers, on topics as broad as technology, health, business, startups, data science, human relationships…
And all these publications are ad-free, and they put forward the articles and not their authors, relevant content and not hidden self-promotion.
There is just one catch: it is a mostly English-speaking platform, and recent French content clearly lacks visibility. But on the bright side, medium.com is also an open platform, where anyone can sign up and publish their article in less than 45 seconds.
You can even start getting paid if your article is read by other members of the community.
So if you too are tired of endlessly scrolling on LinkedIn in search of relevant content, or if you feel like a content creator at heart, join the medium.com adventure.
