For anyone interested, I also have a #substack where I just kind of trust that my disparate interests in #religion#sff#philosophy and #ttrpg s will come together into something special and coherent despite my children's best efforts at leaving me a gibbering mouther. If you're inclined I'd love for you to follow along!
I post something like twice a month. Hopefully more often when the infant starts sleeping through the night.
so (decentralized?) #bluesky rolled out an iOS app before they added a second server, right after #substack rolled out notes and media companies started talking about leaving Twitter. it exists to serve Twitter and is a delaying tactic against the #fediverse. same with #nostr.
what we're building here is a threat to all entrenched wealth and power. it will remove all unearned influence over our attention. it enables people power like the world has never seen before. they should be afraid.
If @mmasnick is correct, regular people will increasingly desert Substack. Then advertisers (I assume it has them) will desert it. You will be left alone with a few thousand fascists, and your articles will have #fascist advertising on them because that is all that is left.
At some point you too will have to move to somewhere else. So better do it now rather than later.
Is #Substack a Nazi bar ... or simply misunderstood?
In this article I discuss the interview that started it all, social media's response to it, why top down moderation is not the solution and why #SubstackNotes is not a Twitter killer.
PS: Please be civil and courteous in the comments. I know it’s a controversial topic for some, but let’s learn to listen to each other :)
Hey #lawfedi lawyer and legal-adjacent friends, I don't know if I've ever formally said this.
Minimum Competence is a daily legal news #podcast and mailing list (#Substack) my wife (@gina) and I do. We've been super happy with the response, people seem to really enjoy it.
The podcast portion is available through any podcast platform. The mailing list is the script and shownotes. They're both free.
If you want, subscribe, and say hi or suggest a story! Thanks.
Substack says it can’t moderate hate speech because it supports free speech. Yet the framing of free speech it uses was developed by the right precisely to protect and spread their bigoted views — even as they attack anything even marginally progressive as being too “woke.”
In Disconnect, I explain why this could be a problem for Notes that Substack’s leadership seems entirely unprepared for.
Way back in 2021, I called out #Substack as a scam because it was masquerading as a service provider when it fact it was paying certain writers (often secretly) to create content for them. (https://buttondown.email/thehypothesis/archive/heres-why-substacks-scam-worked-so-well/) They had an editorial mission and a paid writing staff, but claimed to be a neutral service provider like Etsy for authors. Here's how that story is going ...