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Independent blogs are perfectly viable. It is basically free to publish. What's not viable and never was is to be a professional blogger. At best, some people c
by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Independent blogs are perfectly viable. It is basically free to publish. What's not viable and never was is to be a professional blogger. At best, some people could try to be professional shills with blogs as bait (it is good if these go away; they were noise), and an extremely tiny minority might actually make a living with people paying to support their blog directly.
- sellmesoap 2mo agoI think being a professional blogger is on the rise, the driver for the viability of being a pro blogger has risen. Substack/medium etc. streamline the getting paid part. The fracturing social narrative, (rise in censorship, cancel culture, tribalism) actually drive people to pay to gain access to periodtical writing from specific people seen as authorative on one or more subjects. These subjects that mainstream media are too shy to surface, too dry to feature, or have a tendency to twist to a narrative that supports the sponsors etc.