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I may reach out to the author to learn more as suggested, but is there a particular reason someone would feeling strongly about 'boycotting' substack?

macintux 1y ago
I've not paid much attention, but Gruber discusses it here: https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/regarding_and_well_against_substack https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/regarding_and_well_agains... Anil Dash (quoted by Gruber above) has even stronger feelings. https://www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/dont_call_it_a_substack/ https://www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/dont_call_it_a_substack/
api 1y ago
NTA but there are some people who see Substack as an enabler / platformer of the ultra-right. I don't personally feel this way since I've seen just as many lefty things hosted there. Seems like a fairly neutral platform. I do dislike Substack for other reasons though, but they have more to do with disliking content aggregators and seeing them as parasites. Substack, and (worse) Medium are magazines with unpaid or under-paid writers. They bait people in with ease-of-use and free hosting and then paywall their content and if they allow author monetization they take a very large cut. The general trend on all these platforms is progressive enshittification. Patreon remains probably the least objectionable one.
- wbobeirne 1y ago
  > they allow author monetization they take a very large cut It could definitely change in the future, but Substack's cut seems to be 10% minus credit card fees. That definitely seems pretty reasonable in comparison to other platforms (Most app stores tend to be around 30%.) Maybe there are other creator-hostile elements, but most of the creators I follow that have started on or switched to Substack don't seem to have an adversarial relationship with it.
bitwize 1y ago
Were I to guess, probably because it platforms rightists/non-leftists and is hence a "Nazi bar".
FinnKuhn 1y ago
Not the author, but I have heard the criticism that it is trying to monopolize blogging. Oh, and it is hosting "white-supremacist, neo-Confederate, and explicitly Nazi" content. [1] [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/substack-exodus-social-media-moderation/677113/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/subst..., without pay wall: https://archive.ph/d1d7N https://archive.ph/d1d7N

macintux 1y ago

I've not paid much attention, but Gruber discusses it here: https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/regarding_and_well_against_substack https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/regarding_and_well_agains... Anil Dash (quoted by Gruber above) has even stronger feelings. https://www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/dont_call_it_a_substack/ https://www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/dont_call_it_a_substack/

api 1y ago

NTA but there are some people who see Substack as an enabler / platformer of the ultra-right. I don't personally feel this way since I've seen just as many lefty things hosted there. Seems like a fairly neutral platform. I do dislike Substack for other reasons though, but they have more to do with disliking content aggregators and seeing them as parasites. Substack, and (worse) Medium are magazines with unpaid or under-paid writers. They bait people in with ease-of-use and free hosting and then paywall their content and if they allow author monetization they take a very large cut. The general trend on all these platforms is progressive enshittification. Patreon remains probably the least objectionable one.

wbobeirne 1y ago
> they allow author monetization they take a very large cut It could definitely change in the future, but Substack's cut seems to be 10% minus credit card fees. That definitely seems pretty reasonable in comparison to other platforms (Most app stores tend to be around 30%.) Maybe there are other creator-hostile elements, but most of the creators I follow that have started on or switched to Substack don't seem to have an adversarial relationship with it.

bitwize 1y ago

Were I to guess, probably because it platforms rightists/non-leftists and is hence a "Nazi bar".

FinnKuhn 1y ago

Not the author, but I have heard the criticism that it is trying to monopolize blogging. Oh, and it is hosting "white-supremacist, neo-Confederate, and explicitly Nazi" content. [1] [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/substack-exodus-social-media-moderation/677113/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/subst..., without pay wall: https://archive.ph/d1d7N https://archive.ph/d1d7N