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neither github, gitlab or medium are private. stay away from those.
specially from medium. medium has been trying to centralize and paywall the previous decentralized and open blog ecosystem.
I recommend bearblog.dev which is more akin to Medium, where you don't need to create the website, you just write the content.
neocities.org is more similar to github pages, they host a static site for free. Although you'd be better by using a cheap VPS.
Avoid the likes of tumblr, netlify, vercel and a long etc. They all have important privacy issues or open access of information.
What’s wrong with GitLab?
No, if you know where to look. Medium is just awful. There are too many things wrong with Medium that I won't elaborate here, but I'll leave some sources:
The alternatives that I recommend on my comment have decent privacy policies and are not even close as an abuser as Medium is. They are also free software.
Here there are some decent server providers recommendations for self-hosters which require nor your real name or billing address in case anyone is interested.
https://privacy.awiki.org/#hosting