Anybody written for <proandroiddev.com>? They appr...

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[Sam]

Anybody written for proandroiddev.com? They approached me about publishing some articles with them via Medium. Problem is they also say they copy-paste all their articles from Medium to their parent site (droidcon.com), where I assume they can run their own ads/recommendations/etc alongside it. Without paying me. They talk about this like it's all in the name of more exposure for my content, but on droidcon.com the author credit is not exactly prominent; the focus is definitely on their brand and not on their authors. The cynic in me thinks the Medium publication is just a way for them to harvest unpaid labor for their own site. Am I overthinking it, or does it seem a little shady?

[hho]

I'd avoid anybody who is talking about "exposure" as a replacement for compensation. I think they just want you to sign your work away for free.

[Sam]

I never really understood Medium's whole "publications" thing. I guess they're like curated subsections of the site... but who's incentivised to do the curating, and why? It sort of seems like it's always going to degrade into some form of exploitation 🤔

[Sam]

When I first starting writing there, they had a publication called "Better Programming", which was run by Medium staff themselves. I at least understood the value proposition there, since Medium staff were being paid to curate and promote the site's own authors/articles

[Sam]

But they've shut that one down, which just leaves community curated "publications" that inevitably have some ulterior motive