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I have setup a "Buy Me a Coffee" account to allow for small donations but am not setting up paid subscriptions for my Substack
I am not a fan of paying for monthly or annual subscriptions; when it comes to streaming services like Netflix my strategy has been to pay for maybe one or two at a time and only for a month at a time: Pay for a month of the subscription, immediately cancel the subscription so that it does not auto-renew before I remember to cancel it, and watch everything that I want to watch in that month. There are certain exceptions, such as ESPN+ so that I can watch PGA Tour Live, and here on Substack I’m a regular subscriber to Matt Taibbi’s Racket News among a few others, but that has been my general strategy when it comes to recurring subscriptions.
Substack really wants us all to enable paid subscriptions, which they of course get a percentage of, but I am not so popular a writer or podcaster that I can convince people to subscribe to my Substack for free let alone expecting anybody to pay for a subscription. Certainly not a recurring subscription. And given that I don’t personally like recurring subscriptions myself, I wouldn’t be comfortable asking people to pay me monthly or annually even if they were willing to do so. I would also prefer that my content remain open to the public rather than be hidden behind a paywall. Another reason that I don’t want to turn on recurring paid subscriptions is that if I were to get paid subscriptions I’d feel worse about the large periods of time where I produce no content, like how I haven’t had a new post here since the end of February or a new episode of Never Say Nothing since November.
What I have decided to do, however, is create a “Buy Me a Coffee” account where anybody who feels so inclined is welcome to make a donation if they find what I do of value.
If you decide to make a donation, I think the default amounts it shows are $25, $50, and $100, which strikes me as ridiculous. Donations of $3 or $5 will be appreciated if you can swing it, and if not, that’s fine too. There is a link to donate at the top of my Substack homepage, and I will include donate buttons in my posts moving forward but I don’t intend to constantly throw it in anybody’s face. I am not a marketer and I’m not looking to make a living off of this Substack, I have a day job, but if I can make a few extra bucks for my output here I won’t complain either. So if you feel so inclined, please click the button above to make a small donation, and, if not, I would prefer to have you subscribe for free here on Substack.