Writers

interesting article that created somewhat of a stir (ie backlash) among substack people last week talked about how backing financialization into the act of of content creation is flattening written content out across the board

everyone's a writer, they're just the same kind of writer, producing the same kind of writing

farcaster has different & related issues: we have less people working on content creation, but its almost all monetized from the jump. My own newsletter included. we also have projects financializing the entire network, every post (in theory) could be created with the goal of making money. 

This is quite interesting, because unlike substack, we don't have a large audience of costumers for that content, whether newsletters | podcasts | posts. so why are we monetizing it?

interesting article that created somewhat of a stir (ie backlash) among substack people last week talked about how backing financialization into the act of of content creation is flattening written content out across the board

everyone's a writer, they're just the same kind of writer, producing the same kind of writing

farcaster has different & related issues: we have less people working on content creation, but its almost all monetized from the jump. My own newsletter included. we also have projects financializing the entire network, every post (in theory) could be created with the goal of making money. 

This is quite interesting, because unlike substack, we don't have a large audience of costumers for that content, whether newsletters | podcasts | posts. so why are we monetizing it? 

https://www.readfeedme.com/p/the-machine-in-the-garden

🎩 first, but I like being part of this experiment that is the Farcaster network. 

I want creators to get paid, I want to sustain my own writing on Farcaster. But my preference would be to open my newsletter to the public until there is enough demand to make having it gated make more sense. 

one thing the article is getting at is that writing with the intention of *making* money is going to produce a particular form of writing, over and over again, from many writers. Similar to how we see the same style of tweets with similar content used over and over again.