Medium pivots are the best of times and the worst of times. I enjoy your work, but it is very much in line with what has been heavily curated in the Medium publication era. Social justice and identity politics. There is nothing wrong with these subjects, but when they are all that’s being curated, the readership is turned off and Medium loses money. The same thing happened in 2018 with all the productivity writers.

Many writers, yourself included have generated a large following, writing things that have been tacitly endorsed by Medium…. But in order for Medium to function as a social media site and not an online newspaper, it needs to maintain political neutrality. What you’re seeing as a racist attack by tech moguls, is… somewhat ironically, the removal of your Medium privilege.

You’re a good enough writer for your audience to find you on Medium. You’re a good enough writer to be recommended to a penguin who agrees with your end goal but not your methodology. Your figures will dip. Mine have been on the floor since early 2019. Not because I’m a bad writer, but because I was out of step with the bias of the duration team. Something has changed, probably the realisation that Medium was becoming an unhelpful echo chamber.

Medium is a marketplace for ideas and stories – and was fast becoming a supermarket stocking only one kind of brand. The sudden curation of my writing coincided with the arrival of Steve QJ in my feed– another writer outside the identity politics and anti-racism bubble.

It feels like rebalancing to me and as you’ve pointed out (rightly) – rebalancing feels like threatening and oppression when you’re the one wielding all the privilege. Don’t go, keep writing, engage with the platform and keep your voice in the mix. It’s an important one, but it’s also important it’s not the only one.