Having now had three paying subscribers recently unsubscribe, after having originally made pledges, and also having had no new paid subscriptions since I enabled payments on my account, I have decided to give up on the idea of accepting payments. Although unpaid subscriptions to my Substack have continued to steadily rise, the paid subscriptions experiment has been an abject failure. Some people writing on Substack might be earning a decent income but it’s not happening with me and I don’t think it’s fair on the few who have honoured me with a paid subscription to keep charging now.
So all my writing will be free to all, which is how I originally intended it to be anyway.
Regards,
JJ
I am one of the freeloaders. I would love to support your writing monetarily, however, I am currently in no position to do so.
In my fantasy world, every talented, wise, driven person has the support to share their uniqueness without fear of suffering for their art. We do have the platform to share, but, we have not matured enough as a society to nurture each person to be the best they can be and find fulfillment from their contributions back to society.
I truly do appreciate your writings, and, if you allow, I will continue to read and learn. If I find a way to reciprocate, I will do so.
Thanks
"I don’t think it’s fair on the few who have honoured me with a paid subscription to keep charging now"
i'm paying because I want to!!! obviously i respect your decision to stop it but it's not what I wanted. If I want to continue supporting you do you have a bitcoin / lightning address etc?
or, while I'm on, I invite you to consider nostr. it's an uncensorable social media protocol, which allows direct monetization of content using bitcoin - so nobody can ever be deplatformed or demonetized. its early days yet, and currently mostly used by bitcoiners, but i think one day we'll all end up there - its the social medium of last resort, plus the open nature of it means anyone can create any crazy thing they want and its all part of the same network. check it out at https://primal.net/explore or many other sites / apps.