Yeah. That’s one thing I really like about Substack, that’s pretty unique in the current journalism ecosystem. However, the point is perfectly valid that putting everything in one centralized place and that being how people get paid is a big big flaw.
Which is why I cannot understand why people aren’t simply repurposing Lemmy to be a self-publishing platform, where one puts each category/subject in its own /c/ and one can keep publishing articles all the time, no hassling with any owner-platform, or whatever,
& then one can just have a FundRazr for ( hopefully, not too likely, though, given the get-but-never-give culture this world has bottle-fed into the last few dozen generations ) getting paid.
The Guardian fired most of their journalists, now, in the change-of-ownership, & that’s only a single example of how “journalism” works, nowadays ( ALL the others are equally selling-out journalism, ttbomk… …sigh… )
so, self-hosting, making one’s own platform, seems to be the only sane alternative, then just federate with whom you want…
Yeah. That’s one thing I really like about Substack, that’s pretty unique in the current journalism ecosystem. However, the point is perfectly valid that putting everything in one centralized place and that being how people get paid is a big big flaw.
Which is why I cannot understand why people aren’t simply repurposing Lemmy to be a self-publishing platform, where one puts each category/subject in its own /c/ and one can keep publishing articles all the time, no hassling with any owner-platform, or whatever,
& then one can just have a FundRazr for ( hopefully, not too likely, though, given the get-but-never-give culture this world has bottle-fed into the last few dozen generations ) getting paid.
The Guardian fired most of their journalists, now, in the change-of-ownership, & that’s only a single example of how “journalism” works, nowadays ( ALL the others are equally selling-out journalism, ttbomk… …sigh… )
so, self-hosting, making one’s own platform, seems to be the only sane alternative, then just federate with whom you want…
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