The weird thing about the Substack discourse that I never understood is that I always read everyone's newsletter in email. If I make a comment I just come directly to the newsletter. I never see people like Bari Weiss, for example. I've always just assumed everyone did that, so I don't understand quite all the screaming. I feel like there are some lefty screaming that are just bots or accounts spreading disinfo, same as on the right. Just a hunch.
Also, having two income streams on two platforms might be good for diversification purposes. I've been supporting some folks there since 2014, and they have turned the screws on creators and supporters more than once.
I just found you here today cuz someone else I follow shared this post (the network effect in action), and you got me with "The Year of the Luddite." Looking forward to it.
I'm glad to see you back on Substack, despite being dismayed that Substack already commands a network effect and capitulated to the far-right so quickly it's like it took enshittification as a video game speedrun challenge. Personally, I just find it enough easier to use that I can interact more. Subscription is staying in place as well.
Glad I check my spam folders. With the switch back to substack my email provider thought the newsletter shouldn't be delivered to me. You might want to send a message from your ghost account, if you still can, so that others don't miss out on your changing services.
Hi! What issues are there with Patreon? I haven't really heard them criticized very much so would love to know more about them, as they seem to float under the radar often.
They’re fine with a lot of right-wing influencers using their platform too (Jordan Peterson left, he wasn’t removed, for example), but more than that they lock creators into the platforms because you can’t port your supporters to a different platform and they keep making decisions that don’t actually improve things for creator but try to make themselves more of a full-service platform so they control even more of what you do. It’s really frustrating.
The weird thing about the Substack discourse that I never understood is that I always read everyone's newsletter in email. If I make a comment I just come directly to the newsletter. I never see people like Bari Weiss, for example. I've always just assumed everyone did that, so I don't understand quite all the screaming. I feel like there are some lefty screaming that are just bots or accounts spreading disinfo, same as on the right. Just a hunch.
Also, having two income streams on two platforms might be good for diversification purposes. I've been supporting some folks there since 2014, and they have turned the screws on creators and supporters more than once.
I just found you here today cuz someone else I follow shared this post (the network effect in action), and you got me with "The Year of the Luddite." Looking forward to it.
I'm glad to see you back on Substack, despite being dismayed that Substack already commands a network effect and capitulated to the far-right so quickly it's like it took enshittification as a video game speedrun challenge. Personally, I just find it enough easier to use that I can interact more. Subscription is staying in place as well.
Glad I check my spam folders. With the switch back to substack my email provider thought the newsletter shouldn't be delivered to me. You might want to send a message from your ghost account, if you still can, so that others don't miss out on your changing services.
Hi! What issues are there with Patreon? I haven't really heard them criticized very much so would love to know more about them, as they seem to float under the radar often.
They’re fine with a lot of right-wing influencers using their platform too (Jordan Peterson left, he wasn’t removed, for example), but more than that they lock creators into the platforms because you can’t port your supporters to a different platform and they keep making decisions that don’t actually improve things for creator but try to make themselves more of a full-service platform so they control even more of what you do. It’s really frustrating.