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Substack has actually good writers who post content regularly. Lots of people from the blogsphere migrated there.

by slothtrop 3y ago

bilsbie 3y ago
If I start blogging should I use it or just post on long form twitter now?
- hammyhavoc 3y ago
  If you have to ask if you should use Twitter post-acquisition when any audience you gather may not be there in x time as Musk makes questionable decision after questionable decision, the answer is "no". I feel like a hostage to the platform in many ways as that's where my biggest social audience is—not that I particularly use it anyway these days.
  - bilsbie 3y ago
    I like the new subscriber features and longer videos. Plus a long text limit.
  - lelanthran 3y ago
    So, you recommend that GP ignore his (in your words) "biggest social audience"? Do you not see the contradiction in what you wrote?
    - hammyhavoc 3y ago
      No, I've been on Twitter since the '00s, and have posted over 100k+ tweets. It's not like you go on there and suddenly become a success. It's all dependent on buying ads these days. A good chunk of my audience has left already, plenty planning to etc. And just because there's a few tens of thousands of followers doesn't meant it gets reach or engagement like it used to. Seen that for most people.
      - alexb_ 3y ago
        >I've posted over 100,000 tweets This is not the flex you think it is. If you've been on for 15 years that's 18 tweets, constantly, every single day. That's an absurd number.
        hammyhavoc 3y ago
        Who says it's a flex? You're projecting a lot here. The whole point is illustrating that an audience doesn't come out of nowhere and the company is now under new management. History will not repeat itself, the world has changed, what value I perceived in Twitter has now gone because my audience there is in decline post-acquisition. My investment of time is now worthless other than what I took away from the platform in the long-term in terms of biz and friends. Back in the day, we used to use TweetDeck columns like IRC channels in terms of hashtags, and new tweets on x from y would appear in the relevant column. If you don't know what is, imagine a group chat, but people come and go. Of an evening, I could probably rattle off a couple hundred tweets discussing and debating. Keep in mind the original character count, and a simple response could be a dozen tweets.
        bombcar 3y ago
        It's well within reasonable limits; assuming most of your karma comes from posts you've posted about 8 times a day on HN. Sounds about right for a social media platform.

Substack has actually good writers who post content regularly. Lots of people from the blogsphere migrated there.

bilsbie 3y ago

If I start blogging should I use it or just post on long form twitter now?

hammyhavoc 3y ago
If you have to ask if you should use Twitter post-acquisition when any audience you gather may not be there in x time as Musk makes questionable decision after questionable decision, the answer is "no". I feel like a hostage to the platform in many ways as that's where my biggest social audience is—not that I particularly use it anyway these days.
- bilsbie 3y ago
  I like the new subscriber features and longer videos. Plus a long text limit.
- lelanthran 3y ago
  So, you recommend that GP ignore his (in your words) "biggest social audience"? Do you not see the contradiction in what you wrote?
  - hammyhavoc 3y ago
    No, I've been on Twitter since the '00s, and have posted over 100k+ tweets. It's not like you go on there and suddenly become a success. It's all dependent on buying ads these days. A good chunk of my audience has left already, plenty planning to etc. And just because there's a few tens of thousands of followers doesn't meant it gets reach or engagement like it used to. Seen that for most people.
    - alexb_ 3y ago
      >I've posted over 100,000 tweets This is not the flex you think it is. If you've been on for 15 years that's 18 tweets, constantly, every single day. That's an absurd number.
      - hammyhavoc 3y ago
        Who says it's a flex? You're projecting a lot here. The whole point is illustrating that an audience doesn't come out of nowhere and the company is now under new management. History will not repeat itself, the world has changed, what value I perceived in Twitter has now gone because my audience there is in decline post-acquisition. My investment of time is now worthless other than what I took away from the platform in the long-term in terms of biz and friends. Back in the day, we used to use TweetDeck columns like IRC channels in terms of hashtags, and new tweets on x from y would appear in the relevant column. If you don't know what is, imagine a group chat, but people come and go. Of an evening, I could probably rattle off a couple hundred tweets discussing and debating. Keep in mind the original character count, and a simple response could be a dozen tweets.
      - bombcar 3y ago
        It's well within reasonable limits; assuming most of your karma comes from posts you've posted about 8 times a day on HN. Sounds about right for a social media platform.