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On whether Substack can justify its 10% revenue share for top writers:
Josh Constine • The power shift from publishers to personalities
Open or closed: Who will control the paid-podcast experience, podcasters or tech companies?
Caroline Cramptonniemanlab.org
... See moreThe problem with non-hierarchical models is human beings are not non-hierarchical creatures. Like all anarchist ideals, the dream of infinite digital liberty turned out to be more corporate talking point than reality. We took the agenda-setting function away from individual power brokers and gave it to trillion dollar tech companies, whose faceless
But the catch was that this was never a sustainable long-term strategy, at least not for the purposes of promoting an open ecosystem. User-generated data is vulnerable to a family of sub optimizations such as Goodhart’s Law, in which using a “measure” as a “metric” devalues the measure itself. If you’re Google building PageRank on natural weblinks ... See more
Brian Flynn • Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019
amazon.com
When token go up is no longer a law of physics and money is no longer free, the challenge of number go up—where the numbers are users or revenue—becomes much harder to solve. Right now, Web 3 companies are at pains to even measure those numbers, much less manipulate the few levers they have to make sure they do go up.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Everything is an ad network
The possible letdown, however, is that there is nothing in Substack’s technical or legal design that guarantees that it will remain a tolerant home for heterodox writers.
Jerry Brito • Disintermediating the media with… Substack?
