The Oppression Of The Mainstream

It is a little more than 10 months in read.cash for me, and today I revisited my early articles as a feedback process.

Frankly, I don't know how some of my posts made it to be SEO compatible. I haven't studied this part of how Google works, I only tried to keep it under a strict approach of writing content that is unique, expressing my experience and thoughts on crypto (and a few more topics), and avoiding confusing the audience.

While some of my posts are SEO compatible and ranked high, still most are not.

Anyway, this post is not about my writing performance (I will only mention a couple of my previous articles). This is about something more important. The use of the internet for behavioral control.

Discoveries in this Journey

Medium is proof the internet today works under a certain plan. You play by the rules you get views, you write in favor of a controversial opinion, you get filtered out. Maybe there is no direct censorship, but the visibility of your work will suffer.

Just like with every major mainstream online media, Medium is concentrating on controlling the content and the thought process of writers and readers.

Google doesn't ignore read.cash. I was afraid it was, but it often brings articles from read.cash on top of the search results, sometimes even higher than mainstream media. Our posts have the potential to reach the top of search results.

However, Google certainly prioritizes Medium.

I have found my republished content on Medium reaching the top of search results, while the original that was on read.cash got just fewer views. For this reason, I decided to delay by many days content re-use on Medium, hoping read.cash will be picked first by Google if any of my posts achieve a better SEO position.

Surprisingly, this is the second result when searching with various strings of words used in Googles search engine. In read.cash it is my second most viewed article, with more than 1000 views:

I wish the 100 daily views from this article on Medium were reaching read.cash instead, however, if I delete the Medium republished article, most probably this will not solve the issue.

While sometimes Google selects the articles published on read.cash, more than often it prefers Medium for its search results.

The internet (and Google) wasn't like that in the past, though. Corporations didn't control the internet, and such priorities weren't given as much as we observe today.

SEO works but also studies behavior and forces websites to "behave" according to some vague rules Google sets. Any controversial material not following the mainstream is usually suppressed and will never reach any page on search results.

Google is not there to help users find certain content according to the questions they ask. Sometimes it makes an exception, but mostly it will hide controversial topics and will support the mainstream media over the rest. It will divert the search results with a priority to the established point of view.

Google is pushing the public into the opinion approved by its own set of rules. And the rules are always set by the funds that have stakes at websites servicing 90% of the internet traffic.

While read.cash has a more free approach that doesn't punish the authors for stating their opinion, the same can't be said about Medium.

Medium punishes the content creators that don't follow the prevailing logic, by shadowbanning controversial content and reducing slowly their importance in search results.

Medium, opposes contentious topics, touching subjects the mainstream media decides how they should be presented.

Medium simply has the same approach as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media that care only to push a narrative, dumb down the users, and push the agenda their owners decide.

It is behavioral control. There are multiple reasons this practice is widespread today and the internet is just a method of public control.

It is all about profit, most of the time at the expense of the user. The cost for the user comes by not finding the content we specifically ask for, but the mainstream-related opinion instead.

In Conclusion

After revisiting my previous work today, I deleted four articles that are not relevant anymore. They were always going to be temporary since the purpose I wrote them was about a specific time when I felt it was necessary. I wasn’t given any other choice and could not also explain the reasons I wrote certain posts instead of just reporting. Sadly, there was a policy that forced me to proceed like that. Anyway, if an explanation is needed, then contact me on telegram. It was not what you expected.

Today, these four posts were of no value to the reader, since the situation has changed (for the better) and we are all together adding a piece of success in read.cash. Thus, I felt they should be removed since they served the purpose and wasn't a great experience either.

Medium is just another corporate toy. It doesn’t even leave odds to succeed; it doesn’t pay well and the stories you’ve read about successful medium writers are just to bait you. It is not about what the public wants to learn but what Medium wants to promote as an image.

This is like how Twitter will suddenly suspend your account for stating an opinion, or how YouTube will suddenly suspend your channel, with the most absurd justification.

We ought to be supportive of the real internet, the one that is platforms as read. cash, noise.cash, and a few more that strive to create a better environment and set the standards for a better internet. One, that supports the exchange of ideas. Not the one that suppresses knowledge by justifying the policing of our thoughts and applying mass behavior patterns.

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