Tony -

I agree that many parts of the creator economy have been dead-ends for creators and races to the bottom.

I also appreciate the idea of everyone having wisdom they can share.

But I don't see how having a small set of publication editors with a limited number of backgrounds, tastes, aesthetics curate and rate the quality of tens of thousands of writers/articles with extremely diverse perspectives is a step forward. It feels like a step back before the Internet where there were gatekeepers (editors) who decide what gets published. And it feels like what this devolves into is writers trying to curry favors/relationships with those editors in order to be seen or interesting voices changing their voice in order to fit the aesthetic of an editor rather than a reader. And, I'm assuming that you don't want either of these things to happen.

To me, part of the power of the Internet is that it supports the widest possible number of voices and helps those voices find readers who are "weird" just like them.

What am I missing?