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Depends on what you mean by reciprocity. If you mean praise for good work, sharing it on social media, etc., there's plenty of that. But actually funding the work itself? Not so much.
In the days when I was publishing a music newsletter on Substack, there was plenty of praise for my work, but very few paid subscriptions. Readers even asked me for full refunds without ever explaining why. I gave them refunds, but it really hurt. Completely demoralizing. I've earned more and been treated with more respect when I was waiting tables in a restaurant as a teenager.
When I started working on a book manuscript about dark ambient music, I naively thought that having a good book proposal and a blog that was respected by the musicians and scene insiders would be sufficient to get the work funded.
But publishing doesn't work that way -- especially not for writers covering underground arts, culture, and music scenes.
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yeah, as I see it ... again, there's nuance to everything, and there's no funding right for good ideas, talent, or good people.
We're all (in part) playing the same (economy/attention/ROI) game, and we either play it well or not so well.
Blockchain doesn't change the game, but it changes the reach and number of players that can play, and it can also abstract a lot of the backdoor politics away.
I know it's not really a satisfactory answer because hopes might be different, but it seems to me that it's the fact. And the game is continuously changing for the worse ... because AI is a strong and cheap adversary in the attention (and $$ extraction) game.
disclaimer: all is just my feeling and observations, I may be totally wrong π€ 0 reply
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