Can you help me?

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So, I keep running into repeated issues on Medium, and I have been unsuccessful in solving them, so I thought I might ask you guys, the experts. Or at least people who have more experience on this platform than I do, which is pretty much all of you.

First, from everything I can find, you are allowed to self-publish and then request to be added to a publication and the publication is free to decline or accept and also publish on their platform…