I don't have a crystal ball. Maybe it's what's happening now? We're on a substack. Some of us get this for free, and others pay and get some more content. There are Patreons galore. There is Twitch - streaming with strange interactions with viewers - this is a very new way of interacting that has something in common with busking.
There is Bandcamp, which I already mentioned elsewhere.
Maybe in the future we will see aggregators - people who bundle a bunch of small-payment channels and simplify payment and authentication? And they will try to create silos of exclusive content because human beings....
"Advertising as the way of monetizing ventures on the internet has turned out to be a not so good idea. But it had to be tried, I think."
I like the level-headed perspective you shared here. I'd like to follow up with a question though:
Now what?
I don't have a crystal ball. Maybe it's what's happening now? We're on a substack. Some of us get this for free, and others pay and get some more content. There are Patreons galore. There is Twitch - streaming with strange interactions with viewers - this is a very new way of interacting that has something in common with busking.
There is Bandcamp, which I already mentioned elsewhere.
Maybe in the future we will see aggregators - people who bundle a bunch of small-payment channels and simplify payment and authentication? And they will try to create silos of exclusive content because human beings....