@dirkprimbs@me.dm I don't think
those are the apples and oranges @MikeEL@mastodon.social is comparing :)

The confusion is that the Medium instance is different from the account called Medium. One's the server and one's the user, even if they have similar naming.

So really this is comparing all of the posts from around the world that the server is aware of VS the specific posts that the user goes out of their way to boost.

What this really means, the self-serving, is that the Medium user wants to promote content that has been posted to their website to gain more clicks, obviously, while their server gives their users access to a lot of content from other places.