Refreshing read, Amy. I've never been well distributed, was happy with my few boxes of wine spending cash, got very miffed last week when I saw they totally broke the algo and all of a sudden my member reads and engagement had literally $0.00 earnings, thought about going on strike with everyone else, then remembered why I came here in the first place and decided I'm not going anywhere and I'll publish outside the paywall until it's sorted out, that way I don't care that the algo is broken. The money was always, well, why not. It's not why I came here. I wrote about all that and more in my first not paywalled story, https://medium.com/write-under-the-moon/navigating-towards-acceptance-of-and-coping-with-the-unacceptable-in-the-mediumverse-fe62c96e7061, subtitled "Together with thoughts on time, the dual nature of humans as material and spirit, and reincarnation"