I intend to use either Lemmy or PieFed, or some equivalent, to do a self-publishing site:
you know how some communities are “locked”, such that only the moderators post, but everybody can comment?
An author’s site, like that, but in-depth writing, not just links to for-profit-site’s articles, see?
Rendering “Medium” and “Substack” and all the rest of the “if you want to be a writer who is known, you have to be within our platform” cartels irrelevant..
Income through Ko-Fi, FundRazr, etc, instead of their paywalled-“garden”.
If many authors were to do that, then:
- authors would have DIRECT COMMUNITY, & feedback
- the damn “IF you want to be a writer, THEN you obey OUR for-profit platform” paradigm could permanently go eat rocks, &
- since federating is voluntary, spontaneous this-author-federates-with-that-one networks of writers can emerge, thus replacing the publishing-cartel’s oldfangled newspapers, magazines, book houses, platforms, etc.
Book-people who understand digital-community are likely to understand this paradigm,
but the people who hold that there is ONLY 1 use for Lemmy/PieFed: that is where ANYbody can submit articles, & author-instances simply aren’t tolerable, because they aren’t “anarchistic” enough .. well, they can do their best to prevent this diversification-of-the-fediverse that I’m going to be doing, & hope others will, too.
I want as many competing against me as possible, see?
More fun!
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