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Frances Leader's avatar

Can Substack make money from my presence? It may need to find a way because I prefer to remain free from reader payments. For a decade my readers have been seeing my work free of charge, on Facebook, Twitter and Discord. I cannot bring myself to slip behind a paywall now. That would be so disrespectful to the loyal followers I have who followed me here.

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Sharine Borslien's avatar

Frances, I think that the whole model of SM is the users *are* their assets. So yeah, Ss *is* making money off all of us, newsletter writers and only-commenters alike. They are data-mining at the very least.

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Bailey @ Substack's avatar

Hey there. We aren't in the attention economy here. No ads. We only make money when writers make money and decide to turn on paid subscriptions.

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Frances Leader's avatar

So you are not data mining for profit?

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