Folks, Substack isn't a network-effect platform. I use it because I am lazy. You can pretty easily set up a blog, an email newsletter, and subscription payments yourself. It's not a public square, except to the extent that the internet itself is a public square.
There are also other platforms that do the same thing as Substack, like Ghost.
It's utterly ridiculous to think that Substack somehow represents a gatekeeper to the world of newsletter blogs.
ghost.org/vs/substack/
It's utterly ridiculous to think that Substack somehow represents a gatekeeper to the world of newsletter blogs.
ghost.org/vs/substack/
I like the people who run Substack, and the web design looks nice, but if the company got nuked tomorrow, Noahpinion would be up and running on another platform within a day, with all of the same subscribers.
Which means that if you're upset about things people are writing on blogs, and you want to censor them, you need to go after the ISPs, because what you actually want is to boot people off of the public internet entirely.
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