Substack is a roach motel, pt 135.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/8/24216317/substack-socia-media-newsletter-creators
If you publish on #substack, you are not an indie publisher, you are just sharecropping.
And your sharecropping on a platform that likes Nazis and sympathizes with the alt-right.
And you're making the Trump-supporting Andreeson Horowitz VCs even richer.
A16Z is Substack's only real investor. $86M.
If your URL has that distinctive substack /p/ in it, I'm not clicking it.
I
Ryan Singel /
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