You could do what all communities need to do, to reverse the flow of energy taken from the planet and thrown to heat, as happens by all business for profit, the platform could become solar powered with hydrogen generation, and generate income from the hydrogen sales to aerospace.

This would make Medium no longer for profit, therefore no longer contributing to entropy increase (Temperature increase), since profit is extracted energy.

In fact if you wanted to, you could pay people to come to the platform, rewarding all for contributing, rather than expecting creators to be funding you - this is the wrong way round, and we all know it. And look, there are many brilliant minds excluded, by the requirement for all to find money. This is nothing positive, sharing information to all, its only information shared with the relative elites, and only information known by elites which is shared.

Metcalfe's law tells you how much more valuable the platform would be, to the public, with more members.