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I increasingly think of substack as an experiment in progressive taxation. It’s hard to justify ceding 10% except as an indirect subsidy for new writers (under 500 subscribers, mailchimp’ s free limit). If I’m right, it should develop an interesting natural left bias as it grows.
The biggest value an intermediary adds for more serious creators now is GDPR and EU tax compliance. Otherwise technically, accepting payments now is increasingly trivial with Stripe.
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What I’m waiting for now is a bolt-on paywall with integrated access control that works on an arbitrarily structured static site hosted anywhere. My ideal setup would be a no-code digital ocean server running paywalled gatsby where I check in writing as .md and pay for a CDN.
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I increasingly *don’t*want email push or even to “know” my paying readers. It’s just a regulatory headache. But I doubt anonymous pay-as-you-go access without a third party (aka browser-crypto paywall) will be a mainstream thing in my writing lifetime.
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