> They also seem to be evolving into a social media platform that thrives on the kind of conflicts and divisiveness that has driven people away from other platf

> They also seem to be evolving into a social media platform that thrives on the kind of conflicts and divisiveness that has driven people away from other platforms. This seems like a strange criticism in light of moving to Ghost. There's no reason you have to use Substack Notes, or any of the other social features, if you really don't want to. And it's not really Substack specific > Last fall Substack was called out quite publicly for allowing literal Nazi content on their platform. When they finally responded to an open letter from Substack writers, they basically said they don’t like Nazis but believe that any level of moderation equates to censorship. This free-speech absolutism is disingenuous; every public communication platform has to deal with moderation. I don't know what its like now but a couple years ago the Ghost CEO was a real jerk and would just delete the blogs of people who he didn't like or who criticized the platform: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1487633638502154242 https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1487633638502154242 I would much prefer Substack here. I'm very fond of Substack generally because I think they deserve a lot of credit for 1. starting a new blogging renaissance generally. Lots of my friends started writing and I really love it, and they make it easy to share their work. 2. normalizing writers getting paid. It used to be very difficult to make any money at all writing online. Usually you had to hope a big outfit would pay you pennies for a few words. Substack has minted millionaires from people just posting. I think that's wonderful. Maybe Ghost can help with that, but I think the learning curve and start up cost is much worse.