https://vairtere.substack.com/p/sstack-as-a-platform

I have long felt and still feel that there’s nothing much for me at the big soc.med. places like Twitter and Facebook and Instagram (with the possible major exception of FB Marketplace now that it has mostly killed off CraigsList–but that’s about consuming, not about creating).

I’ve been happy here on my own WordPress Spillsite.

But now the time has come to get serious about a path to monetizing, which I’ve never cared about here, and WordPress alone is not very good at that.

YouTube was the next thing I tried and although it does attract more views than this blog, it’s still not going to be worth any $ for a while yet, if ever.

Over the last few daynights, I reposted the cream of my YT channel to Rumble, and did a minor refresh of my presence on its sister site, locals.com … I think what that duo is mainly good for is backup. There are many more eyeballs at YT and the feature set is better–although Rumble has a much better reputation for not stupidly censoring.

Next I checked out my Patreon. The dealbreaker here is that you can’t post/host video there without upgrading to a ‘Pro’ subscription, meaning that they take an even bigger cut of donations than the five percent they already take, on my ‘Light’ plan. That doesn’t seem like a good deal, and besides that Patreon is not anti-censorship in any way. Pass.

Finally, Substack. I think this and YouTube will be where my primary energies go in the medium term. The post linked above contains a bit of raw video uploaded directly to Substack for testing. I don’t know if there are file size limits, or time-of-video limits … I don’t really know that much at all. But … my gut sense is that YT and Substack together are the way forward, with this blog and Rumble as the fallbacks.

In the next day or so I’m going to educate myself more thoroughly on that and see if it holds true.

Let’s begin again.