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> If you as an independent commentator are tied to a centralized platform, you are a feature to be sold, and will be muzzled or deprecated if needed. Wasn't on

> If you as an independent commentator are tied to a centralized platform, you are a feature to be sold, and will be muzzled or deprecated if needed. Wasn't one selling point of Substack that you could easily leave with your subscribers, so substack writers aren't really for sale and can't be muzzled/deprecated? Or did it change since Substack was launed? Also are you thinking about specific writer(s)/events when you wrote 'muzzled or deprecated if needed.'?

rurp 2y ago
That's still the case. I've seen a few newsletters I follow move off the platform, one of them just a couple weeks ago. I don't like to see them go though because I think Substack is great overall, much better than competing services.
- leereeves 2y ago
  When a newsletter moves off Substack, can they take their incoming links and SEO mojo with them? If so, how does that work?