I dont really know why your old site died (can you tell us?) but i don't think substack is that much of a catastrophe, from what little o know of it. Whatever the site lures are, i have ignored them so far and just have five or so bloggers ive subscribed to. The email versions of latest posts seem handy. I rarely subscribe to online content as too many people overprice themselves. If its above $5 a month then absolutely forget it. $1 sounds fair. I'll reward good content but i'd like to keep my capital free to support other content too.

In terms of a coralling agenda, that's backfired on them bigtime. Since Hillarys deep-state first teamed up with Zuckerberg and co to stamp out dissent, the alternate platforms have just multiplied. Some like long reads, sone quick snaps, some video, some audio. Its whack-a-mole and they can't win. People have even managed to turn tiktok into a platform for dissent.

And as far as i can tell, less and less people give a shit about the censors now. All the friendships and relationships have already been broken. All the firings, all the movings and deplatformings. And we've survived with our little huddles of true believers.

I say proceed as normal, and price any paid articles low. Don't get greedy and dont get obsessed with the attention game. Publish another book or article collection of PRD. That might be a good side-play. And do the podcast, get Cappy on. Even though i don't always agree with you, you are interesting and that's rare.

All the best. Sincerely, a longtime reader and occassional commentator with a history of stupid old pseudonyms.