@fka_tabs writes that his move from Substack to Beehiiv went well (with a few glitches, naturally) and I'm so happy to read that. Today in Tabs is one of my long-time favorites.
"There were about 175 new paid subscribers in my first two days on Beehiiv, which looks to me like a direct measure of the demand that was being suppressed by potential customers not wanting to pay for Substack."
I've left #Substack, because they haven't deplatformed some of the worst Nazi and white supremacist sites, in spite of calls from many writers to do so.
Anybody who's subscribed to my Substack will automatically get emailed posts from the new site...
Hey techy-Fediverse!
Does anyone know of a good, simple alternative to Substack? We're mainly looking to make short update posts and be able to email those updates out to our subscribers list.
Substack would have been perfect for our needs but Nazis suck, so we're kind of stuck on where to go now... #Substack#Blogging
Yeah, there are web browser plugins and DNS blockers and stuff. I use those too! But this works even in app-based clients and when I’m away from my home network. You know—that rumored “outside” place?
It's good to see people reconsidering #Substack for hosting newsletters.
If you're looking to start a newsletter, or migrate to a different platform, it can be hard to make sense of the different pricing schemes that each platform uses.
I made a tool to make it easier to compare how much it might cost to host your newsletter on each platform:
Anybody who posts that they're leaving #Substack for a new platform, I will boost whether I have subscribed/followed them or not. Presumably they have good values if they want to leave Substack, and I want to do my part to help them reach their whole audience.
A few years ago I started a newsletter on Substack. My goal wasn't to monetize it, but it has such an easy interface that made it easy to use and the potential for a great community. After the Nazi BS it was no longer an acceptable home for my newsletter. I investigated a couple alternatives, and finally settled on Beehiiv. It also has an easy to use interface, an attractive landing page, and a TOS that doesn't allow Nazis or other hate groups. #Art#Substack#Beehiivhttps://symmetricaluniverse.beehiiv.com/
Want to move your newsletter to a self-hosted Ghost installation? @wes has written this comprehensive step-by-step guide, covering how much it will cost, what you'll need, how to import your posts and subscribers and more.
"[SubStack] began encouraging individual writers to recommend one another, funneling tens of thousands of subscribers to like-minded people. It started to send out an algorithmically ranked digest of potentially interesting posts to anyone with a Substack account, showcasing new voices from across the network. And in April of this year, the company launched Notes, a text-based social network resembling Twitter that surfaces posts in a ranked feed."
This is the strongest part of Platformer's criticism of #SubStack. One can argue that hosting writing most people find unsavoury, and even making money from doing so, is desirable. In democracies that value protecting minorities from the tyranny of the majority. But recent history has taught us that showing people unsavoury writing they're not even looking for is a recipe for trouble.
I don't want people coming to a platform to read my work, then being told 'you might also like Nazis!'
As Casey openly admitted in his first piece on the subject it was never really about "Nazis". Demanding #SubStack boot "Nazi" publications was always about establishing a precedent for the banning of any other speech accused of being "harm" by Casey and his fellow travellers.
I just sent my very first newsletter for #TheRealists via #Ghost (love love love this platform) after ditching #substack.
The topic? A bit of personal history about being a geriatric millennial, living my whole life in between two worlds... and raising a small child away from screens.
Diversity! Das macht die globale Tech-Community aus und das bedeutet auch, dass die diejenigen, die diese heterogenen Strukturen, unsere taeglich gelebte Vielfalt zerstoeren wollen, Tech und Fortschritt ausbremsen!
Wenn du verrueckt nach Tech bist, dann kannst du weder rechts, noch rechtsextrem, rechtspopulistisch, Faschist oder Nazi sein.
Und aus diesem Grund verlasse ich die Plattform, die Nazi-Content monetarisiert!
Rusty re: Today in Tabs: "Personally since moving off Substack I’ve had modest growth in paid subscribers and modest decline in free subscribers."
Today in Tabs is one of the best things to hit my inbox and I'm so glad it's off #Substack so I can subscribe, ethically. Maybe you'd like to give it a try if you aren't yet a subscriber. https://www.todayintabs.com/
Hey friends, Substack is deeply problematic. Please, for your own credibility, move to other platforms for your newsletter as soon as you can. There are good tutorials floating around on Mastodon to help you.