Creator collectives share the burden of publishing and backend duties (accounting, admin, customer support), but do not solve for churn.

Token-backed communities align incentives so much better than any other medium or monetization I’ve seen.

What solves for churn is enabling your readers to benefit financially as the collective grows.

Platforms like Substack have enabled the best journalists to leave their job, but it’s also put writers on a hamster wheel with a weekly publishing cadence, where they may be making less than they thought.