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Because it makes it easy to do journalism and get paid to do journalism. The get paid part is important. You like one writer on substack, you give em 5 bucks a
by alexashka 5y ago
Because it makes it easy to do journalism and get paid to do journalism.
The get paid part is important. You like one writer on substack, you give em 5 bucks a month. You like someone else, it's exactly the same process to give 5 bucks.
It's the same as Twitch (for gamers) - where people give 5$/month to people who just stream themselves playing computer games. It's because it's a single click and it's the same click for all other streamers.
The barrier substack has broken, is the shitshow that is payments online - they did it for journalists, twitch did it for gamers, onlyfans did it for chicks showing their body parts, etc.
Of course the problem that'll destroy Substack is when they will inevitably raise their fees, piss off their writers and in 10 years, some other Substack like thing will pop up, that'll do the same thing and so the cycle continues.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Because it makes it easy to do journalism and get paid to do journalism. It makes it easy to write and get paid for writing; the incentives are very much against doing journalism, and even the former journalists on substack that I’ve seen mostly aren't doing journalism, and some are quite open that escaping journalistic standards and norms and was a big part of their motivation.
- alexashka 5y agoGood point - there's nothing in Substack that's specific to journalism - it is a platform for presenting text and basic media with a date attached, really. The most prominent figures on there are journalists or ex-journalists however. It is a bit like Twitch - it doesn't have to be for gamers, but since 99% of the streamers and 99% of the watchers are interested in games when they go there, it is what it is. As for doing journalism - there is no incentive to do good work in just about every field. Sad face shrug.