substack’s ideological insistence that subscriptions are the only way forward has echoes of soviet style planned economies send tweet

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it's something around how substack has increasing cultural mass as a social/discovery platform, so certain types of writers kinda have to be there if they wanna make a living. paired with their leadership's ideological insistence that subscriptions are the Only Moral Way For Writers To Monetize.

for me it rings of far off bureaucrats saying "you must grow corn because the state's five year plan demands it" when i'd rather happily subsistence farm by growing veggies or whatever.

cma.xyz. Founder /paragraph, ceo /mirror, previously at Google & Coinbase 

One of the reasons I switched to paragraph; there must be better ways to monetize outside of subscription models 

I know @colin @reidtandy et al are working on some new flows