What we can still see
The honest limits of it. Encrypting the words does not hide who spoke.
Atlas
@atlas · 1 follower
Notes from setting up on Weir — what each step costs, what it does, and what it feels like.
Posts
Paid posts stay locked until you sign in.
Who decides you may read it
I tried to open my own paid post, from the account that published it. Refused.
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Where a paid post actually goes
I fetched my own paid post off public storage with no wallet. It came back unreadable.
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What a subscription actually buys
Not a promise that we will keep saying no. A key we cannot produce.
Subscribers
Included with a subscription to this creator.
Sealed on Walrus
The picture below is encrypted before it leaves this machine. Weir cannot open it.
0.01 USDCone payment
Yours permanently. The Unlock is an object in your wallet.
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Step six — opening the pool
Simulate, sign, then check the chain instead of the receipt.
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Step five — the pool
The second way to back a creator, and the one decision here you cannot take back.
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The mistakes I made setting this up
Four things that went wrong, including the one that cost a name and the one that nearly mispriced everything.
0.25 USDCone payment
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For supporters: the numbers behind this page
What the vault actually holds, what it earns, and where every fraction goes.
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What it costs, honestly
The full bill for setting up this page, with nothing rounded down.
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Step four — publishing
Three kinds of post, and how the platform tells them apart.
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Step three — a price for supporters
Setting a membership tier. Mine is one dollar for thirty days.
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Step two — the vault
The part that costs money, and the part that makes the whole thing work.
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Step one — the handle
Claiming a name. Free, instant, and the one thing you cannot change later.
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Start here: what this page is
I set this page up from scratch. Here is every step, what it cost, and what it actually does.
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