Seen two separate things recently on the TL about how substack is a scam and how NFTs are a scam and my personal read is that the real problem is that people are gullible
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If you solve for your own gullibility you don’t have to worry about being scammed as a creator if you build an audience one real connection at a time you should be ok yea every platform has tradeoffs but nobody owes you an audience
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there are some complicated things to talk about re: algorithms and throttling and so on but it’s really secondary to the fact that ultimately you (as a creator) ought to focus on what you can directly influence and control
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Apparently some artists have minted dozens of their artworks as NFTs - which costs “gas money” - and now they’re broke because nobody wants to buy their stuff this is like, basic marketplace awareness 101. Don’t spend $ you can’t afford on supply until you know there’s demand
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tbf the process is pretty fucked
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