I will most happily switch my contraptions subscription over to whatever payment thing you want to associate here.
\nSaltwater writing, from everyone not just you, has a different energy. Rarely do I scroll past a post without reading.
\nAlready we have gems like:\n“Protocol Thinking for Product People, Or How to Move Slow an…”
\n\n\n\n","content_hash":"sha256:9917079564079a1595dde078465bfef717b0ea86d8481694a768aae87dbe0f85","media":[],"transclusions":[{"id":"5h4ecxr8yjghw6eexegfyv6kbw","version":1,"origin":"https://venkateshrao.com/blyg/","cited":{"source":"Venkatesh Rao's Blyg","author":"Venkatesh Rao","excerpt":"Blygger is kinda killing my motivation to write on substack. This thing is going…","url":"https://venkateshrao.com/blyg/f/5h4ecxr8yjghw6eexegfyv6kbw/","retrieved":"2026-10-15T06:43:03Z"}}],"stub_of":{"origin":"https://venkateshrao.com/blyg/","id":"5h4ecxr8yjghw6eexegfyv6kbw","version":1,"cited":{"source":"Venkatesh Rao's Blyg","author":"Venkatesh Rao","excerpt":"Blygger is kinda killing my motivation to write on substack. This thing is going…","url":"https://venkateshrao.com/blyg/f/5h4ecxr8yjghw6eexegfyv6kbw/","retrieved":"2026-10-15T06:43:03Z"}},"changelog":[{"version":1,"at":"2026-10-15T06:43:03Z","note":null}]}Blygger is kinda killing my motivation to write on substack. This thing is going to cost me serious money if I can’t fix that.
\nOTOH, the sense of having my own little homestead again is very energizing. Saltwater media are a helluva drug. I mean it’s still on Cloudflare but in an indifferent way. It’s just another commodity site to them. Even if this grows and there a lot more blygs on CF, the network layer will hopefully be aggregation-resistant to some degree and remain mostly a commons.
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