Hi Burke, this is a really helpful article. I too struggled with understanding what implications of being friend member is. Am I correct to say that I would still earn "regular" membership income for my external reads of my own articles, by sharing a friends link, but that as a friends of medium, if I share other writer's articles, they get 4x income rate? So basically friends of medium still get paid regular income rate if they share a friends link for external reads to their own articles but not 4x as much?