> What about monetization?

> You certainly can try to find ways to monetize through platforms like Substack, it's truly up to you. The key is building a network of people who want to talk together!

Hmm. This is one of the reasons why this won't take off unless the blog is on Substack and people are making money out of it.

But then again power laws are brutal, which is why Substack has got good discovery, ordinary wordpress/ghost/jekyll/ssg websites and blogs with RSS don't.

There needs to be a way to gate web / RSS content + discoverability behind hit for those who don't want to go onto Substack, especially now with AI crawlers scraping blog content from authors for free.

Otherwise the only way to make money from your writing would be to use Substack.