> Subscriptions only work when I trust you both as a payment processor (so that excludes newspapers) and if you're already established as a trustable content cr

> Subscriptions only work when I trust you both as a payment processor (so that excludes newspapers) and if you're already established as a trustable content creator. Sure, but once you have made a name for yourself you want subscribers, which is why Patreon/Substack/etc allow people to subscribe rather than allowing them to either buy/not buy each piece of content. Every seller wants the consumer to default to paying them forever, rather than paying once and then having to make an active decision to pay again. (And before you have made a name for yourself, you don't sell your content at all, you give it away for free) Control over the "default" behavior is just incredibly powerful. Creators are not going to give it up.