Services like Gumroad can have zero discoverability because other services have decent discoverability. So somewhere, discoverability is a crucial service and i

Services like Gumroad can have zero discoverability because other services have decent discoverability. So somewhere, discoverability is a crucial service and it's probably best to have control over that rather than assuming a third party service will continue as-is. Take Twitter for instance, prohibiting the promotion of other platforms. This impacted discoverability for a lot of people because they relied on Twitter as the funnel to get people to patreon/gumroad/their site/etc. Apparently that policy at Twitter is now gone but you get the point. I don't fully agree with the above idea that discoverability is the main problem however when it comes to blogging. Tumblr solved that for a long time (although now discoverability is a bit rubbish), most still don't use Tumblr so there are greater factors at play here.