Creators are sharecroppers to the feed: post more, earn less. This article outlines the traditional social media platform extraction playbook and ofers some insights into how to fix the problem – own the rail, port your audience, program your rights, and monetize directly. Discovery on platforms, depth on Farcaster/email. If you’re done farming for algorithms, come build with your 1,000 True Fans. Let your digital sovereignty cup floweth over…

Stop letting platforms live in your head rent-free. In the creator economy, you don’t own the reach—algorithms do. It's time to flip the script. This first deep dive explores the rent-free revolution.