We have this debate any time there's a new gravy train for online writing, and it's getting exasperating. Every new platform will reward a set of star writers in a POWER CLAW distribution, the early will cash in, and discovery is the unsolvable problem.https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1373392942170132480 …
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The overall level of whining about writers not being able to make a living from it is incredible. We live in an era where anyone can publish! It's amazing! You used to have to go hat in hand to publishers, or pay for a vanity press. Now you can just do it! Quit your griping.
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Now Substack (or whatever follows it) is going to laboriously reinvent editors, magazines, copyeditors and the newsstand, in the same way Uber eventually first-principled its way to inventing the bus. But the genuine revolution of this era is You! Can! Publish! Anything! Online!
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What rankles me in the Great Wheel of Online Publishing is not that we repeat the same debates about it each time, but that when these bloated platforms inevitably disappear they take entire communities and comment histories with them. And those have more value than the writing
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