This is funny and somewhat accurate, certainly for 95% of what's on the sites. For me anyway, medium articles only usually come up when I'm trying to learn abou

This is funny and somewhat accurate, certainly for 95% of what's on the sites. For me anyway, medium articles only usually come up when I'm trying to learn about, say, some aspect of data science (and usually read like something someone wrote it so they could put it on their resume). Substack seems to be much more about the authors, and there are a few popular ones that have gone "independent" and write there and have good followings. That, I think, is where substack can be good, if you like editorials from particular people, it's easy to follow them, and they have enough of such people. I wish there was some way to aggregate subscriptions to get a discount though, I feel like I would end up paying them more if I could get an "unlimited" version, though maybe the quality would go down because top folks would get paid less.