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Independent media is not vulnerable to buy and squash because another will just rise in it's place every time you squash one. Supply follows demand, and there are no barriers to entry. It is vulnerable to the much more insidious force of audience capture, though.

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The problem is that we don’t have distributed systems of discovery. Patreon, Substack, etc, are all centralized. You have to migrate your audience, and you’ll lose some every time.

So yes, another will rise up. But even better would be a distributed network that actually _works_, immune to the threat of centralization.

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