Distribution is a popularity contest at Medium, always has been. I know I'm not the greatest writer ever and I certainly wasn't there; but I also wasn't their worst, by far, and they had their favorites who always got distributed regardless of what they wrote. Even their best, most popular writers aren't capable of hitting it out of the ballpark every single article but they got fairly robotically distributed. It was a couple of years before they distributed anything of mine, and probably because it got published in The Ascent. Later, another distributed article got taken down, because it apparently offended some when I argued that white people who hate white people are racist. No mention of trans anywhere.

Unfortunately, many platforms have become woke shitholes. Free speech my ass. The woke love censorship every bit as much as Ronald DeSantis.