SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog

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• spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  on one hand, if you’ve been following news about Substack at all, this is not particularly surprising:

  November 2023: Substack has a Nazi problem

  January 2024: Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis

  but on the other hand…this is the kind of thing that will be surprising to a lot of people who aren’t savvy media consumers. if they thought about Substack at all they probably thought of it as just “that website with all the newsletters”.

  many of those people had the Substack app installed on their phones.

  they got a push notification. the icon of the push notification was a swastika.

  imagine looking at the list of notifications on your phone and just…seeing a whole-ass swastika.

  I would compare this to the time Elon Musk called that cave diver in Thailand a “pedo guy”. he was a shitbag before that, he was a shitbag after that, but that was still a watershed moment when a lot of people had the sudden realization of “oh, huh, this guy’s a shitbag”.

  Substack has been a Nazi bar for a few years now. they started allowing customers of the bar to hang up flags on the front patio. today was the day they hung up a Nazi flag.

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  • cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    some more history:

    April 2023: Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become The Nazi Bar

    December 2023: Substack Turns On Its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ Sign

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• scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why don’t payment processors go after stuff like this🤔

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  • megopie@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because there are no rich connected socialite interest groups that frequent same country clubs as the payment processor C suites who care about nazi’s, in fact, they’re probably at the same country club.

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  • Kissaki@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe they will if someone or sie org forces then sit it?

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• pasdechance@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250425/ also has a good list of grievances

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• splendoruranium@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My knee-jerk reaction to that kind of headline is always to start mentally typing out a response warning of inflationary use of the term “Nazi”, but… er yeah, I guess that’s a Nazi blog alright.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have you not been paying attention?

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    • splendoruranium@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To what? 😶

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  • synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My knee-jerk reaction to that kind of headline is always to start mentally typing out a response warning of inflationary use of the term “Nazi”, but…

    Since there’s a lot of nazis around lately, I’m glad you’re learning to control this reaction

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