You touched on a very important point Sussie. I have such loyal readers who joined Medium after finding my stories on social media or shared by my other fans. I created a case study recently when Medium accidentally suspended the account of one of my favourite readers. https://medium.com/illumination/why-i-firmly-believe-lanu-pitan-is-not-a-fraud-but-an-avid-reader-and-valuable-community-member-8b4b55eec812
Recently some of my loyal readers who can no longer find my stories on Medium found me on Substack and became paid members. While I gained ZERO followers on Medium in the last six weeks. I gained 29K subscribers which brough me five times more income and 100 times more views than my 5 year old account on Medium. To this end, I decided to close my best publication ILLUMINATION-Curated yesterday. You have been a contributor to this curated pub as an accomplished author so I'd be interested to obtain your perspectives in the story if possible.