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There’s so much talk about “going paid” that you sometimes feel that it should be every writer’s goal.
Outside of VC, it’s literally the only way they make money. Why do you think everything is optimized to push you to stacks with paid tiers?
Normally, sites make money just from serving ads along with their content. This means, the more e…
There’s so much talk about “going paid” that you sometimes feel that it should be every writer’s goal.
Outside of VC, it’s literally the only way they make money. Why do you think everything is optimized to push you to stacks with paid tiers?
Normally, sites make money just from serving ads along with their content. This means, the more eyes/traffic, the more money they make. That’s not how it works here. Here, it doesn’t matter how much traffic you bring to the site unless they have paid subscriptions. In fact, unpaid eyes actually cost the site money, and so SS is actually disincentivized from accommodating them at all… other than getting them on the content-creation treadmill and convincing them to grind for paid subs… just look at all these people making money — that could you be you!!! wink, wink
EDIT: December 23, 2023… LOL.. of course.