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Most of them change their minds when they realize their customers--viewers, subscribers, advertisers--don't want to see all legal speech. It's amusing that Mus
by md_ 4y ago
Most of them change their minds when they realize their customers--viewers, subscribers, advertisers--don't want to see all legal speech.
It's amusing that Musk's incentive appears to be fear of what his viewers will see--namely, competitive services they might consider using instead of Twitter.
I do think that's fairly different than the incentives for Facebook and Reddit.
- vuln 4y agoSubstack is not a competitor to Twitter. Two completely different use cases. You can use Twitter to drive traffic to your substack. Doesn’t really work the other way around imho.
- TheCleric 4y agoElon's decision is dumb, but SubStack is expanding it's use case: https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes
- cinntaile 4y agoThis is likely a bigger threat to Twitter than Mastodon is. Well played Substack.
- ttctciyf 4y agoI can't see them gaining traction. As one billionaire[1] opined: > you can totally delete things from the Internet – that works perfectly and doesn’t draw attention to whatever you were trying to hide 1: https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1644174878382215170#m https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1644174878382215170#m
- smoldesu 4y agoIf that were true, Mastodon wouldn't have been banned first ;)
- cinntaile 4y agoThis Substack feature was introduced 3 days ago.
- throwntoday 4y agoTwitter is looking to offer subscription services, paid tweets, and longform content. Substack is a direct competitor in that regard.
- basisword 4y agoTwitter owned a direct Substack competitor (Revue) - and Musk shut it down.
- throwntoday 4y agoProbably to integrate it directly. Doesn't make sense to continue operating a competing service; that's only some idiocy Google would do.