Actually, Scott, there was a sort of SelfPublicus here on Medium. Every writer was also an editor. You never had to wait to have a submission accepted and published 'cause you could do it yourself. I was a writer/editor but it was sooo confusing. People submitted and didn't published. People published other people's submissions and never offered any of their own. The owner of the pub ran afoul of the Medium powers more than once. The publication disappeared. I can't recall the name to see if it ever was granted reentry to the Medium community.