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Them: "We are launching a new publication"

Me: 😐

Them: "We intend to do journalism differently"

Me: 😐

Them: "We will be beholden to no one in our search for truth"

Me: It's a Substack isn't it?

Them: "You will be able to subscribe using the Substack platform"

Me: (closes tab)

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Mathias

@lori@cambrian.social

A thing that has annoyed me the last couple of days is that I have friends to finally, FINALLY, decided to leave Facebook, Instagram etc (which I've been telling them for literally years) and then they say they are moving to Substack. Oh. Right.

I don't know what to say to them. I mean, it is good that they move off Meta's services, but if I start telling them what I think of Substack they might just...well...not move. I still see them not moving as worse than them moving on to Substack, but I might be confused here in my thinking that if they have started moving they might be more open to other, better, services (than Substack).

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Lorraine Lee

Substack seems to have emerged as THE blogosphere (or blogosphere replacement). I would think it's only a matter of time before it gets acqhired by one of the tech giants. My guess would be Microsoft, owner of Github. People setting up on Substack has "this is my JOOOOOOB" vibes. Maybe I'm the weird one who didn't get the memo that not monetizing your hobbies makes you some kind of scab.
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