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Substack Is a Trap
- warrenm 4y agoI think Substack is just the next on a long line of plogging sites (first heard that assigned to Medium in 2015 in an article on Wired) The only way to own your content is to, well... own your content Host/publish it yourself Or expect everyone else to profit from it
- galaxyLogic 4y agoWell of course but you can benefit from having a publisher, instead of self-publishing. Does Substack take away your copyright?
- warrenm 4y agoI don't know if they subsume/extend/alsoown your copyright - but by dint of publishing on someone else's platform, you're beholden (to some extent) to that other entity
- Finnucane 4y agosays guy in twitter thread.
- warrenm 4y agoresponds guy on HN ;)
- gardenfelder 4y agoIf it's a "trap", what are the alternatives? Others here suggest hosting your own, but nobody wants to lay out the whole story. Hosting your own means server costs and a lot more. Substack is taking care of that. It seems to me that those who want to use twitter (etc) as a platform to complain ought to be considerate enough to talk about the options.
- for_i_in_range 4y agoI only tell subscribers to my paid physical monthly newsletter this type of info. Sorry.
- DoItToMe81 4y agoAdequate servers for blogging can cost under 5 dollars a month. You're not exactly running heavy download servers here.