this is my newsletter

There are many like it, but this one is mine

Ownership is an important thing for us creatives. If you don't own your tools, your artwork, or your platform, you're at constant risk of losing your hard work, whether that be to getting priced out, shadowbanned, or just being the unlucky recipient of a sketchy/capricious copyright strike.

Ownership is cool because even if Twitter (I'm not calling it X) has a service outtage, Instagram decides to change its algorithm (again) or if tiktok stops pushing my videos because I didn't post a retention-edited niche audience content piece for the tenth week in a row, i still have a newsletter which isn't subject to any of that.

I'm not quitting social media, in fact, I'll probably be doing a lot more of it soon, but over the years I've come to realize that someone who will open your emails is going to do way more to support you than someone who hits a "follow" button and then only sees a fraction of your posts.

This sounds like I'm complaining. I'm really not, I'm just trying to create some roots beyond the regular frontiers for anyone who wants to get updates from me directly.

So here's step one.
I hope you enjoy!

-Domingo