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Re:It’s Time to Get Back to RSS by zrail on Sunday May 17, 2020 @05:17PM (#23215564)
The legions of small publishers making a living on substack beg to differ.
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Re:It’s Time to Get Back to RSS by nl on Sunday May 17, 2020 @08:04PM (#23216751)
1) Subscription is not the same thing as micropayments (as they are commonly understood)

2) It's pretty unclear to me that Substack actually lets "legions" of writers make a living. https://substack.com/discover lists the top (income making?) writers, and it drops off very quickly. By number 25, it is "hundreds of subscribers" paying $10/month. That's a nice hobby income but isn't really "a living".

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