Two years ago, the first post was published as part of this project. Back then, the channel was called LPR-tyan and looked like a rather cringe-worthy roleplay as a girl who claims she is a political party.
Gradually, the channel distanced itself from this strange persona; the process accelerated after the project founder left. Now the channel is much more respectable, but it has lost some of its drive. The main feature of the project was answering questions, but over two years, essentially, answers to all the main questions have long since been given, and some more than once. Repeating oneself is somehow strange; however, a new channel, Libertarian Aggregator, seems to have decided to go through the history of my channel and repost the most successful posts, for which I am, of course, grateful.
Therefore, today the focus of my activities has shifted toward things that were previously more incidental: translating books, writing scripts for a series of videos, and collaborating with a network of other anti-state projects. I feel my growing demand as a libertarian activist, but at the same time, the demand for the Telegram channel is rather falling; this is evident from the view counts. A year ago, the channel had 848 subscribers, but the average number of views was 70% of the audience. Now there are 1,860 subscribers, but the number of views has dropped to 40%.
My most in-demand competence remains not so much the ability to compose something of my own, but the ability to rework someone else’s and present it in a more attractive form. So I will continue this peculiar cooperation with those who have many fresh thoughts but experience difficulty in presenting them. This also includes answers to questions like “what do you think about such-and-such a tome?” I would like to post reviews of various voluminous works from time to time, but familiarizing myself with them takes an awful lot of time, so only for money.
The original monetization model of the channel was narrow: an answer to a question accompanied by a donation was guaranteed and given out of turn. Gradually, the focus shifted simply to donations for the development of the channel and targeted contributions for book translations. Initially, it was proposed to simply transfer bitcoins; now there are many more options available, from banal rubles to advanced bitcoin payments via the Lightning protocol. I highly recommend mastering this latter method, because eventually you’ll have to anyway. I have posted all the instructions on this matter; they are not complicated.
Since the end of April, I have started a strange experiment — I started a personal blog. The subscription is paid, and although I regularly write something about myself there, it is primarily an opportunity to support the main channel — I am far from thinking that my personal musings themselves are worth monthly fees. So far, I am writing for as many as three readers who subscribed for 200 rubles a month, and no one has subscribed to the 1,000 rubles a month level yet. However, I currently enjoy the process of keeping a personal blog, so I will continue this activity even if the number of readers does not increase significantly; it’s a sort of hobby within a hobby.
I still want to engage in something more practical in addition to creating text content, but so far nothing concrete has come to mind. After all, social entrepreneurship is a separate talent.
The post turned out to be quite minor, in accordance with the general atmosphere around us, and it would be good if this underlying irritation in people does not accumulate in vain.
