Creators

i usually take everything Taylor Lorenz says with a grain of salt but this take about substack's dark patterns re: creators stuck with me:

"substack's whole appeal to creators is that their creative labor is worth something, and creators should own the fruits of that labor, namely the connections with their audience. 

substack successfully differentiated itself from other platforms with this value proposition and attracted a vibrant array of talented creators as a result. 

with the follow button, however, substack contradicts their core principle of creator ownership, instead recreating the very kind of walled garden their founders originally opposed.”

anchoring substack's app experience in generalized attention is paradoxically hostile towards a creator's individualized mission and limits a creator's growth outside of substack's own walls.

in the near future, direct-to-fan relationships > direct-to-consumer platforms.

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Blockchain makes this much better, imo. Being able to place something onchain and reach the folks who will care unlocks so much opportunity in many verticals.