WeWrite is a social wiki where each page is a recurring donation target.
Instead of being enslaved to Social Media’s algorithm-powered Content Treadmill, you can quietly cultivate your thoughts from idea-seeds and grow them into complex interconnected systems of thought.
“Why not use Substack?” Well, on Substack, each article is a “Post” and you’re lurching your Post into the Content Treadmill. Worse yet, your words are framed by an email inbox. Disgusting.
WeWrite allows users to submit edits to each other’s pages for approval by the owner. Your trusted collaborators could be allowed to to skip this approval process.
Donations. Instead of likes or upvotes, WeWrite says “put your money where your mouth is” and actually support the page by donating to it. No vanity metrics.
You can’t eat likes ... you can’t pay your bills with upvotes.
Even if Twitter finally figures out monetization, Twitter is still all about Posts, enslavement to the Content Treadmill, and a post (a Tweet) isn’t collaborative. Perhaps the dialectic lives in the replies.
The donation mechanic could encourage authors to push their ideas even further. That is, if you write an empty page with only a title, but readers resonate with it, they’ll donate to encourage you to continue your thought. “here’s some money to elaborate” “keep this up”
Your short quip could grow into a story. Then a screenplay. Then a feature film. No need to sell your soul to investors. Your loyalties hopefully lie with your generous audience.
Patreon has something good going too. But again, it’s about Posting on a Feed. It’s not about developing a body of interconnected work. It’s also not collaborative. It’s embarrassingly mid.
With WeWrite, you’re free to explore different concepts, since each Page is its own fundraiser. If you go a different direction, nobody’s offended, they can just keep donating to your old Pages in hopes that you return to that old classic vibe. Your new Pages will stand on their own merit.
A Patreon or Kickstarter requires a lot of work to set up. With WeWrite, each page you write is its own Patreon of Kickstarter fundraiser. That means you can “set up a hundred Patreons” in a single day. Just by writing.
Monetize the library in your mind.
