Are Subscriptions Working for You?
Substack has a seriously flawed business model
Subscriptions: A Sisyphean Strategy
To Substack Creators and Their Supporters:
Substack has a seriously flawed business model.
How many serious creators have found that the subscription model of Substack is not working for you, and is not going to work for you? In the critical words of Matt Giaro: “subscriptions are a fantasy dressed up as a strategy.” He asserts that subscriptions are like handcuffs and mostly produce drudgery because they do not fit what people do, and he backs that up with logic and experience in the post that must be recommended:
The subscription model is inadequate to the needs of most creators, and worse, inflexible. The Substack Model serves ulterior purposes and interests not yours. The algorithm is not your friend, nor is the Substack business model. Most arrived at Substack as refugees. People are anticipating a return to refugee status and are already planning on the next migration.
Substack changes constantly and every change seems to diminish its value to its serious contributors who don’t fit the model, in inverse proportion to the effort of the corporate owners to build a machine to harvest profit. The Substack Model aids and abets those who profiteer off of the misappropriation of intellectual property ‒ the plutocrat ghouls who are effecting their Artificial Imperialism by vacuuming up your work wholesale. Substack is funded by predators, Artificial Imperialists, serving only themselves, not you.
CAVEAT CREATORS: Protect your native intelligence and the products of your mind. Don’t you want a platform that serves and protects YOU, the creators? Don’t you want a platform to protect you from Artificial Imperialism?
Imagine SUPERSTACK: An Antidote to the Algorithm for Serious Creators of Intellectual Property, your defender against Artificial Imperialism, your servant, promoter, and protector, your agent for purveying your creations, and for getting published or distributed, for getting a fair return and insured protection for your creations, and defense against infringements. Don’t you want an organic platform designed and operated by and for the creators?
Look for my forthcoming SUPERSTACK: a blueprint for a better platform, what it seems the serious creators we encounter on this site really need, a site that serves and protects those creating the value.
SUPERSTACK is a trademark of Jerome Schweich, to be freely assigned to the creator collective that will produce SUPERSTACK.
Thank you for your courtesy and attention to this.
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