On one hand there’s a risk people just go deeper into their own echo chambers with more extreme writers catering to only their audience. That said, I actually

On one hand there’s a risk people just go deeper into their own echo chambers with more extreme writers catering to only their audience. That said, I actually have seen the opposite. The freedom from ads, low overhead, and editorial independence allows writers to go more in depth and discuss nuanced topics with people they may disagree with. This isn’t a guarantee and it probably doesn’t have to be that way, but the variety of newsletters I read have a lot more depth than most of the articles in the NYT on any given day. You’re right though that there’s a vacuum for discovery and community that needs to be filled in a world of decentralized independent platforms. I think there are probably interesting things there that have yet to be built.