People who write articles on medium/towardsdatascience and the like, why?

Hi everyone,

there are already non-paywall alternatives and I also assume that every single data scientist could get a blog or a full-blown website up and running relatively fast. So, my question is why do people still decide to hide their articles behind an aggressive paywall, what is the gain from this?

Are they paying the authors? Is that the reason? Even then, I think a donation option on a blog would work pretty well without letting the internet become …

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