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You would have to be a complete idiot to try and build your revenue on something owned by Twitter. They will shut you down at any time, for any reason, with no recourse.

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In the new era of monopolistic common carrier platforms, you have to BUILD INTO YOUR BUSINESS PLAN what happens when you get screwed by, say, the Apple App Store, YouTube, or Twitter, et. al. It's a business risk, just like fire or flood. You have to have a contingency ready to go at a moment's notice. By example, Parler didn't.

I read somewhere that parler actually did have a contingency plan, but their backup host pulled out on them too.

just build your own internet

With Revue and Substack, do the authors have access to subscriber email addresses? If so, that would somewhat blunt concerns like this, both directly (if you are booted off the platform) and indirectly (presumably the platforms would be less aggressive in their rules/enforcement if it is easy for authors to leave).

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/logistics

> I'm saving the Substack mailing list regularly to my hard drive, and if I go somewhere else I'll let you all know.

So this is possible on Substack at least.

Some Substacks also use a custom domain name, which would make migration off the platform even easier.

Revue's homepage[0] says:

> You own your list, forever > Bring the audience you’ve built, and take it with you anytime. You are in control.

0 - https://www.getrevue.co/

Or just drop the entire thing (Vine reference)

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