Am I missing out?

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      And the first part is why a lot of content creators are on it.

      At a certain point, a blog becomes more than a hobby. When that happens, a platform like Substack helps people transition the hobby to a job

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          I’ve never heard of that platform, whereas I have heard of Substack. If I’d already built a following, they already have their alerts set up for my substack. If I’m hoping people will pay me, many have already put their payment information into substack, which is a significant barrier many people face in deciding to pay for something online. At a certain point, ideological purity runs into pragmatic problems.

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            This isn’t about purity, that’s some right wing religious nonsense. It’s simply about not funding Nazis. This isn’t a hate crime or some far fetched idea. The basic concept of don’t enable and fund Nazis is pretty fucking straightforward. The paradox of tolerance isn’t complicated.

            Only good Nazi is a dead one.

            If you can’t make money online without licking Nazi boots then maybe your content shouldn’t be monetized at all.

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      White supremacy newsletters sound like something that should be utterly mocked.

      “Welcome back to this edishun of White Like Me! In news this month, I’m still white. But I did get a nasty sunburn on account of how I done had to stand out in the sun for a half hour in my best y-fronts to fix that lazy Jim Bob’s truck before I could take it on date nite with my sister. I blame them coloured folks with their melanine and new world order ties to the Demoncrates weather control sattelights an theyre five gee! When Elon fills the sky with his sattelights, then we gon see some progress! Hail Elon!”

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      Really wish these articles could reference the supposed antisemitic blogs. Really interesting what happens when you actually follow up on this stuff.

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              Just so we’re clear, you think a guy that writes about systemic racism and named Tariq Acknickulous is a Nazi?

              Bruh 🤣

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                No I’m calling anyone on a platform that funds Nazis willing supporters.

                I don’t click substack links the same way I don’t click on Twitter links. They prop up the Nazi platforms and keep them legitimate.

                He’s better off deleting his account on the Nazi table and heading to alternatives if he truly gave a shit. But he won’t because they give him scraps to keep their Nazi blog running

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                  lol you are such a fake. You participate in platforms that host Nazis all the damn time. Get a grip dude. You pay taxes to Nazis on the daily, and that’s not even the start of it.

                  Not to mention Substack is used by fucking everyone. Calling it a “Nazi platform” is pure mental illness 🤣

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    It’s just a blog platform and most of the people on it seem to be crazy or racist

    They also try to call their blog posts “articles” and pretend substack isn’t just a blog platform for crazies

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    More junk stalkerware getting pushed. Try putting up a DNS white list (default blocking) firewall and then try white listing their servers. There are many many connections required to make it work and most make no logical sense. You’re running a ton of stalkerware junk in the background. Trusting that BS is a mistake IMO. Like if you need it for some reason, a virtual machine or separate hardware device and network are pragmatic.

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    I’m not sure which content creators you’re referring to specifically or what you consider sudden but Substack has been around for a few years. Don’t know much about the subscription side other than the fact that authors can put content behind a paywall and make money off it. If you’re seeing people in a particular hobby or niche interest jumping aboard, it could be a follow-the-leader sort of thing where a few people found success there and now the rest want a piece of the pie.

    Hard to say whether you’re missing out since your experience will be heavily dependent upon your interests and the quality of available content catering to those interests. Nothing’s stopping you from taking a look and deciding whether it’s your kind of place though.

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    There got to be enough money involved in blogging that someone finally succeeded in replacing it with a convenient, easy, well-advertised platform that they could enshittify and extract maximum profits from.

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    It’s a place for twitter users to roleplay as intellectual essayists (okay some of them are totally worthwhile tbf) because twitter itself is designed for sharing brainfarts rather than cognizant thoughts

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    It’s live journal for tryhards and pseudointellectuals.

    Don’t get me wrong, there’s good stuff on there as well, but it’s mostly just the newest “every opinion has an asshole” platform.

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    It’s not yet in its enshittification phase, so right now it seems like a good deal. But before you know it, blog posts there will be blocked by all kinds of overlays and whatnot, like they are on Medium these days.

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    It seems to be a way for people to have a paywalled blog without building their own website.