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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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Lorraine Lee
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Too many smart people are going to Substack. I want to feed my head, but I can't open that website without feeling somehow used. I hate that blogs have given way to "newsletters."
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Tom Walker
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@lori What annoys me personally is that a lot of these people don't think they are setting up something that is approximately a blog (which they are), but something that is approximately an online magazine

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Mathias
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@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
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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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Impudent Strumpet
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@mathias @lori Super weird that they'd think Substack is a replacement for Facebook or Instagram! They feel like completely different mediums to me
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Lorraine Lee
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I think a lot of people who used to blog now do Substack. I tend to take it as an FYPM statement, although it could also be driven by enshittification of Wordpress (which itself has largely evolved away from its non-monetizing users).
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Impudent Strumpet
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@lori Weird Mastodon thing: your reply shows up in my timeline, but not my notifications.
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