There are many platforms. Medium is one. Vocal. Substack. Upwork is still another. Patreon is another. Fiverr also works, for those who can create templated, repeatable jobs. Even from among the ones you know, there are those which work — for a given purpose or specific purposes. The new individuals who create businesses need services. Same for new freelancers. And there are many more. Moreover, there are new things like DAOs. On top of that there is an easy DAO called mirror.xyz for writers.