Re:Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little
by 1123581321 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @09:15AM
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The problem in your analogy is you don’t think Lady Gaga is worth paying close attention to. Substack’s proposition is that an individual writer has an audience willing to pay to read much or all of what the writer publishes. It’s not a business model seeking dabblers on either side of the transaction.
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Re:Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little
by ghaff on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:34AM
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Good way of putting it. Substack, as currently positioned, is for people who are sufficiently motivated to pay the equivalent of a traditional magazine subscription for maybe a few writers who produce engaging content, presumably on a frequent basis, that they find worth paying for relative to free alternatives.
I assume Substack payouts are very power law.