Sorry for commenting a year after posting but I have a question...

It seems that Medium since Q3 or Q4 2019 has been making all non-Medium domain links nofollow. This is understandable BUT it also means that those of us with custom domains have all their internal links labled as nofollow too.

For some reason, a few publications out there with custom domains likes the Writing Collective and Towards Data Science have do follow links for their domain only. See the below links for examples...

https://writingcooperative.com/how-to-use-grammarly-without-losing-your-voice-d22b96f3191d

https://towardsdatascience.com/why-companies-should-manage-their-own-machine-learning-team-instead-of-outsourcing-it-12f3754061f7

I'm trying to figure out why this is the case but can't for the life of me. Moreover, Medium's support is hush on the matter too.

I guess I could use the Medium domain version of the URL to get a dofollow link but then it's like I'm linking off site to a page that gets redirected onsite.

Any idea what to do as the change to nofollow tanked my SEO in 2020?