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Here’s a question: at a time when anyone with $10/month can have their own website, why are well-known journalists and writers paying a percentage of their income to be on a platform like Substack? At what point do we start realizing the platforms are the problem, not the solution? That the Indie web and rss readers are the only solution we need? That all the toxicity we condemn in social media could be eliminated by abandoning platforms?