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A focus on contrarian writers with unsubstantiated opinions. And a personal subscription model.

• kodah 4y ago
  > A focus on contrarian writers with unsubstantiated opinions These are also features of Medium, maybe most blogs. Being discerning is also a required feature of the internet, regardless what one might dream of, imo.
• ifyoubuildit 4y ago
  This seems like a pretty uncharitable take, and one thats unlikely to be true. Do you think substack has some metric on "unsubstantiated opinions" that they're trying to maximize? Or have you just noticed more content that you disagree with there?
• aikah 4y ago
  • morelisp 4y ago
  • ceejayoz 4y ago
    Substack exists because someone launched a very different business model than Medium. They also have a program where they pay prominent people advances to switch (https://on.substack.com/p/why-we-pay-writers https://on.substack.com/p/why-we-pay-writers). Greenwald's Medium is still up. He just never really used it. https://medium.com/@ggreenwald/almost-nobody-reads-these-posts-35ab88d8aaf9 https://medium.com/@ggreenwald/almost-nobody-reads-these-pos...