Unless you have been living under a rock, you will probably have heard the news that OnlyFans is changing its policies in a way that removes the main (or often, only) revenue stream from most of its users.

Users of OnlyFans are, understandably, upset about this. Here is what we authors can learn from these events.

Under no circumstances allow all your author platform eggs to sit in one basket. Your platform is more than social media. In fact, make sure that your primary point of contact is something you have under your direct control.

The best way to do this is to pay a small amount to get a domain name and hosting. That way, if things go south, you can just move your site to a new host and be back up and running in days.

On the other hand, if Twitter or Facebook were to go down today and never come back up, would you still have an author platform?