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How is substack different from blogs? I dont get it. I usually dismiss this kind of articles as as paid promotions
by cblconfederate 6y ago
How is substack different from blogs? I dont get it.
I usually dismiss this kind of articles as as paid promotions
- sneak 6y agoIt’s also worth noting that the Substack founder donates content to alt-right media outlets. It’s one of several reasons why I advise people to avoid their platform.
- tehjoker 6y agoCan you provide a link? I did not know this.
- notankies 6y agoNo, because alt-right is just a slur from someone on the left for anything they don't like. If you want hard evidence you'll have to wait for a real claim.
- tehjoker 6y agosneak must be referring to an interview Substack founder Chris Best gave in September to Quilette, an alt-right magazine, about Substack.
- cblconfederate 6y agothats irrelevant
- sneak 6y agoI disagree. The choices we make, especially about those with whom we enrich via our business and custom and, increasingly, even attention, matter more than most people realize when it comes to shaping the future of our world. It’s one of the few actually-powerful options still retained by most of the general public, increasingly rare in our modern western world. It’s quite important that we know who we’re dealing with and to whom we pay money. A good example of the result of ignoring this is the fact that the now-largest hosting provider in the world are also the CIA’s sysadmins. Doing business blindly with vendors is to pass the steering wheel to someone else, and abdicates a critical individual responsibility. If you find it irrelevant, you’re free to ignore it, but many people (in my estimation) do not, and I believe we all benefit from having better information about markets, whether it results in endorsement or avoidance. Informed decisions are good decisions.
- tw1912112 6y agoIt's not very healthy to be so politically infatutated, that too with one ideology. You will change, either with age or circumstances and then find yourself having missed certain oppurtunities because you don't find someone politically aligned with you.
- newswasboring 6y agoeh... There is a place for your argument, and of course I would agree with you in many cases. But that doesn't mean we should give up on checking our vendor backgrounds entirely. Although OP has not provided a source for these donations, I think we should consider this point. It does not have to be a binary, but it seems like people don't even want to have the spectrum any more. Make a judgement based on your personal morality but it seems like you are advocating not having a personal morality at all.
- notankies 6y agoOK, so read your mainstream press, owned by the likes of Bezos, and enjoy your feeling of moral superiority or whatever. Pick your poison. I'm thankful Substack allows a place for Greenwald and Matt Taibbi and others like them. I believe homo sapiens is a sexually dimorphic species, however, so I'm probably alt-right in your estimation.
- bitmunk 6y agoI love how you assume that he's a Washington Post fan or something like that, if the mere idea of "take in account who's the owner of a media outlet" makes you seethe like this maybe you should rethink what content you're consuming.
- BurningFrog 6y agoI don't see how splitting society into factions that shun each other leads anywhere good.
- sneak 6y ago
- high_derivative 6y agoAhh, the vague smear. What is an alt right medium? Any medium posting any content you are politically not aligned with? Comments like yours prove exactly the value of having something like substack for journalists like Greenwald.
- sneak 6y agohttps://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quillette https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quillette I did not intend to be vague, nor to smear anyone, I’m just trying to stay on-topic and not derail this comment thread into where it appears your reply has gone. I encourage you to reach your own conclusions based on the facts; I am not interested in pushing any particular political alignment. The ongoing (and supremely noisy) American culture war is extremely disinteresting to me, I just want people to have the information to make their own decisions and reach their own conclusions. Perhaps you like the alt-right and learning that information would make you more eager to use Substack, perhaps not. Either way, it’s better that people have more information than less.
- question000 6y agoThanks I'm glad someone told me this, I'm from Charlottesville so I'm shocked to hear people say "it's irrelevant."
- bhl 6y agoSubstack allows writers to create their own paid newsletters and blogs without the hassle of setting up payments or worrying about gmail's spam filters; it also gives writers more control over their relationships with subscribers, since they can export the mailing list. That's the gist.
- cblconfederate 6y ago> or worrying about gmail's spam filters Oh, how? Do they have some special kind of agreement with Google?
- zorked 6y agoI'm not Substack but "email ops" is a thing that exists, where you have someone working on reputation, getting you off blackhole lists, keep up with the latest DKIM-like thing to ensure deliverability, etc. For very large email senders it, yes, may include knowing whose phone number to call.
- cblconfederate 6y agosmells like typical SV nepotism then (because substack is not yet a very large sender)
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