I'm still on the fence about Substack. I'll have people I follow use Substack, the trick being after some amount of time their work becomes premium access only

I'm still on the fence about Substack. I'll have people I follow use Substack, the trick being after some amount of time their work becomes premium access only. On one hand, I suppose paying people for their insights is legitimate. On the other, I'm not paying for things I only have a passing interest in. I dunno, maybe if there were Substack credits, where I could unlock a premium article on an ad hoc basis. Kind of like Audibles subscription service. But that might cannibalize direct subscription. You could start eating Patreons lunch and have tiered premium levels for creators, incentivizing community building through Substack. Allows for both Substack premium subscription and creator subscriptions. In theory that sets you up to take on ever bigger platforms like YouTube and Twitch, getting creators to use Substack for their video/steaming content. Anyways, forgive my rambling, that's the monetization route I'd look into to have Substack be the only platform any creator needs.