The biggest Substack accounts tend to belong to people who started blogging in the early 2000's, accruing large email lists over the decades. Writers that didn't do that can't hope to compete.
They are fulfilling an essential function and mostly doing it quite ably:
https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1373631878310285319?s=20
Those who want the independence of Substack but don't have enormous pre-existing mailing lists can't be merely duplicative of what the big fish do.
There are other areas besides challenging the narrative enforcement that need doing.
There are other areas besides challenging the narrative enforcement that need doing.
Restoring the integrity of arts coverage is a major one
Initiating coverage of race that isn't an adjunct of astroturfed activist organizations and agendas is another
I have my own personal hobbyhorses to pursue (Theory of the Successor Ideology among them) but above all want to make my Substack into a writer's medium, where you can reliably find the best prose being published anywhere as standards deteriorate badly elsewhere
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