Yep, it’s still a nazi bar.
Don’t share links to substack
Make sure your friends do the same
I genuinely had no idea. There’s tons of people I follow on there that are most certainly not Nazis, and that’s the only place they publish stuff :/
Fuck corporate Substack, use open source Ghost
It’s super easy to self-host too. I used it to create a wedding website for my wife and I instead of using something like TheKnot and I had it up and running with content in a few hours
It’s a good summary of the shit situation, but is there something in this article that wasn’t already common knowledge?
i think you’re overestimating common knowledge. like, even knowing that substack exists is pretty good for common knowledge.
Most people don’t know about this, no. Now we have a mainstream publication reporting on it that we can point to.
Months ago, YouTube pointed me toward a video that recommended Substack as a platform for some hobby. I made a public comment pointing out that Substack was profiting from spreading Nazi ideology. The YouTuber replied, said something like “No way, they’re not really doing that, are they?”
Maybe I’m naive, but I expected a YouTuber to be more terminally online than I am, to have heard of the Substack Nazi problem already. I also expected a YouTuber to at least Google “Substack Nazis” or similar before replying to some internet nobody. But apparently, no.
A lot of the coverage of the Substack Nazi issue that I’ve seen has been, broadly speaking, social media material, including blog posts. Those of us who read such stuff (like me, maybe you too) probably have some incorrect intuitions about how well-disseminated the ideas we find that way really are. Having a mainstream source like the Guardian pick up the story may be useful even if it doesn’t say anything new to us.
Guess I’m too immersed in the small press. This is the first time Substack’s suckery has made the mainstream media? Wow…
