I built a

Facebook page to 500,000 followers

Youtube page to 160,000 subscribers

LinkedIn page to 18,000 subscribers

Instagram page to 20,000 followers

All without Medium's help.

Also..

I helped build Medium to the platform it is today with the content I contributed to the platform for 5 years.

It wasn't a one way street. If nobody published here, they wouldn't exist as a platform today. There is no one without the other Joachim