I advise caution and to move slowly on this. Recommend you see where this shakes out by April-May. Substack's management and investors have to make some short-term tradeoffs for long-term benefits. i think they will come around to the right answer (a bit of censorship isn't bad).
I found you here via The Bulwark, so I've not been a reader all that long. This and your other 'stack are interesting and informative to me, so my preference is for you to continue to write about your work.
As to where, here is convenient in several ways (including functionality Ghost doesn't seem to have yet). My thoughts on leaving here are mixed. Yeah, Substack's founders sound pretty stupid. But I'm not interested in sending even a hint of a signal that I'll cede ground to fucking Nazis. (Yes, I'm still on Twitter, but I've always been a very small fish there and don't see a lot of the crap others complain about. I see it only when I look at certain trending topics, and then I abuse the hell out of the "block" button.)
First, I love that you're thinking "out loud" about this and sharing your thoughts with your audience.
Second, I interpret your perspective as wanting to signal to Substack's management that you are against their allowance of questionable voices to exist here. However, I invite you to consider an alternative perspective - would moving away not give (unintended) signal to these bad actors that Substack is now "their" territory?
Third, as another writer here, thanks for giving me something important and valuable worth noodling on!
Thanks for the thoughts. I agree that it "feels" weak to abandon another platform (see, not infrastructure) to the dregs of humanity. Yet, the absolute weasel worded, mush-mouth position of the founders really makes you wonder. I mean they do block porn and sexual content, but are fine with Hanania and Spencer, and in fact seem to be holding the door open to them.
Staying feels like tacit agreement with them and their positions.
I advise caution and to move slowly on this. Recommend you see where this shakes out by April-May. Substack's management and investors have to make some short-term tradeoffs for long-term benefits. i think they will come around to the right answer (a bit of censorship isn't bad).
Read this and tell me if you still think this way: https://badnewsletter.substack.com/p/all-the-garbage-i-found-on-substack
I found you here via The Bulwark, so I've not been a reader all that long. This and your other 'stack are interesting and informative to me, so my preference is for you to continue to write about your work.
As to where, here is convenient in several ways (including functionality Ghost doesn't seem to have yet). My thoughts on leaving here are mixed. Yeah, Substack's founders sound pretty stupid. But I'm not interested in sending even a hint of a signal that I'll cede ground to fucking Nazis. (Yes, I'm still on Twitter, but I've always been a very small fish there and don't see a lot of the crap others complain about. I see it only when I look at certain trending topics, and then I abuse the hell out of the "block" button.)
Thanks. I am just concerned that my "professional" reputation is captured here, so the taint by association is something I care about.
Yet, I am approaching 60, and my glidepath to retirement makes me want to say eff-it.
And frankly, while I finally got Ghost to run on the new droplet, I am fighting mighty hard on email config. Reminding me why I am not an engineer ;-)
I get it. Good luck to you.
First, I love that you're thinking "out loud" about this and sharing your thoughts with your audience.
Second, I interpret your perspective as wanting to signal to Substack's management that you are against their allowance of questionable voices to exist here. However, I invite you to consider an alternative perspective - would moving away not give (unintended) signal to these bad actors that Substack is now "their" territory?
Third, as another writer here, thanks for giving me something important and valuable worth noodling on!
Thanks for the thoughts. I agree that it "feels" weak to abandon another platform (see, not infrastructure) to the dregs of humanity. Yet, the absolute weasel worded, mush-mouth position of the founders really makes you wonder. I mean they do block porn and sexual content, but are fine with Hanania and Spencer, and in fact seem to be holding the door open to them.
Staying feels like tacit agreement with them and their positions.
Feels dirty.