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https://doctorow.medium.com/so-youve-decided-to-unfollow-me-7452c96b4772

So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me - Cory Doctorow - Medium

It’s hard to overstate how liberating the early years of internet publishing were. After a century of publishing driven by the needs of an audience, we could finally switch to a model driven by the…

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