Indeed. Even where you might once have thought "I'll add my own site, for the true fans, and take in orders of magnitude more money" - Now you can just add pat

Indeed. Even where you might once have thought "I'll add my own site, for the true fans, and take in orders of magnitude more money" - Now you can just add patreon (or an onlyfans) that handles that for you far more efficiently. Then there are more niche providers like Floatplane (the Linus Tech Tips side-hustle/life-boat), who'll give you more autonomy and a CDN. LinkTree was when the penny really dropped for me. Pretty much just an API landing page to point you to the other platforms. Maybe the only next step left, is stuff like https://nametag.org/ https://nametag.org/ - using an NFT to be your presence. It's all very odd, and as I said above, makes me feel very old.