I cannot express how much i hate that people keep posting useful things on #Substack.
Every time i'm sent to a post their !@#$!@ "hey sign in!, or not!" overlay when i'm barely started reading. Today I went to someone's top level page there and it was ONLY that. I literally couldn't see ANYTHING by the author until i clicked through.
Substack may be easy/good for you as a creator but it's terrible for ALL of the people you're hoping to read what you create. It doesn't treat us with respect.
Well, my week-long break is over. I should hopefully get out a new episode of VibeCaps Podcast out today, a new article in the next few days, and start a new podcast by the end of the week.
Upon observing #Threads, it seems that the individuals at #BlueSky might be growing increasingly apprehensive about it, closely followed by #Twitter. This development renders #Substack Notes, #T2, #Nostr, and #Spill seemingly obsolete.
In my humble opinion, #Mastodon is less threatened by this, as Threads is said to be federated into the #Fediverse.
Full-time gig: High school English educator. Let’s talk shop!
Part-time gig: Sports writer/talker. Founded/nurtured/grew CougCenter.com; writing/podcast now live at #Substack (link in bio). Former Basketball Prospectus/ESPN Insider contributor.
I thought it was 8 hours so I was glad it was only 6 🤣. Tho I pushed my luck and tried 4 hours 😆
I have been locking my devices in the room at night and have implementing aggressively strict app locks so that I have no access to #SocialMedia (including #Mastodon and #Substack) during working hours and at night.
I sleep better, my energy levels improved and my mental fatigue at the end of the day is not as crippling.
Digital burnout is real 😬
I was also unnecessarily stressed out by issues
"So, like, if you want people to not only subscribe but actually pay to read your #Substack would it kill you to periodically engage with the folks here on #Mastodon instead of treating it as a unidirectional marketing channel?"
Just read the latest Platformer Substack newsletter via this archived link I found on Mastodon. Is it just me or does it sound like they aren't planning on leaving Substack? Really disappointing, I was hoping they would announce they were leaving.
I would unsubscribe from their newsletter but I already did a long time ago.
Gods I love the modern #Internet.
Suddenly last week I started getting tons of emails from #Substack for some reason.
Thanks to the #Enshittification of the Internet apparently when a newsletter I once read moved to substack, Substack auto-creates an account for you and start pumping out newsletters. Without consent.
I had to log in, create a profile (thank Artemis only a name was required) and then move into account settings and delete the account.
I'm hearing people have been able to leave #substack with few interruptions to their payments and reader relationships because the new services also use the payment processor Stripe. That's great but that's also concerning. What if people decide Stripe is evil? Or what if Stripe decides it doesn't want to support certain opinions or writers? Can't we build a decentralized, open protocol #FOSS version of #Stripe, #Patreon, #PayPal etc?
The folks on #Substack dot com has literally, and in so many words, come out in support of hosting Nazi content on their site, claiming doing otherwise is “censorship”. Meanwhile, people can’t post porn on Substack, but that’s somehow not also censorship, I guess.
Just to be clear: Substack is a privately-owned site. It is under no obligation to host any particular content on their service. They choose to associate with and platform Nazis on their site because they want to.
What do you call a bar that willingly serves Nazis? A Nazi bar.
Is someone tracking the Substack exodus, and who's actually followed up on their public threat to leave if they didn't renounce their oft-stated support of monetizing Nazis (and other bad actors)?
This seems to be the most prominent one (40k subs) I've seen so far, and I love their honesty about the risk and challenges involved.
Doing the right thing is usually the harder choice, but it's definitely a choice.
I see once more we are witnessing the "oh no they like nazis, how could we ever have realised???" reaction from people who have been busily ignoring trans people and sex workers telling folk that #substack likes nazis for several years.
It's just so tiring, watching the "I just have some questions" to full blown transphobia to raging fascist progression happen again and again and again, measurably and predictably, and people throwing their hands up and going "who could have foreseen????" every single fucking time.
If you are journalist who has been recently laid off, or if you know one, check this out!
Ghost, the superb, open source, newsletter platform (and rival alternative to Substack) is offering free subscriptions to help get started with self publishing.
Folks who are looking for a #Substack alternative where you can build an audience that pays for subscriptions: https://ghost.org/ might have all the features you need.
I've been reading posts declaring that "if your content is on Substack I won't even look at it, I will block you".
I would like to say: That's great! I'm glad you're giving me the freedom to avoid your moral superiority complex.
PS: I'm on #Substack, have my own website, reluctantly on Facebook and am in the #Fediverse.
I'm #SocialMedia agnostic, cos platform purity is a myth. We just got to use everyone to our advantage. 😉
Substack may have an easy to use platform, but its leadership has become a liability to all the non-Nazis who use it.
I’ll have more concrete details on my migration plans for Disconnect soon. It’s not something that can be done overnight, especially during the holidays.
As the new year kicks off for me with exciting work challenges that I can't wait for, there are also the usual resolutions. I've at least started implementing this one: Thanks to @jasonhowell for inspiring me to revive my #Substack#Blog 'Too Many Open Tabs!'.