I think this is because Automattic failed at making wordpress dot com a true platform level competitor to things like Medium. It never outgrew roots as basically an open source product rather than a platform. What it actually competes with are hosted WP players like WPengine
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tldr of strategy recommendation for substack: commoditize your complement, ie writers to the tune of 90% but not 100%. Putting all writer brands on an equal level playing field instead of creating *feature* tiers for bluechecks is the key to being a good platform.
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There is no royal road to geometry There is no special iPhone for special people, everybody gets the same price points. No special substack for special writers. But fee tiers for ++ services are okay. Like the extra fee for own domain mapping.
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This is possibly a problem for history-completist readers, but is frankly not a big deal for me. I'd be fine with most of my content just vanishing into random blackholes so long as I've gotten what I want out of creating it.https://twitter.com/EricRichards22/status/1328812337785081857 …
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