Am I missing out?
It’s a place that lets people charge subscriptions for blogs.
Avoid it and encourage others to do the same
What is Substack and why all the sudden do all the content creators seem to be on it?
Submitted 1 day ago by Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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9point6@lemmy.world 1 day ago
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
And the first part is why a lot of content creators are on it.
At a certain point, a blog becomes more than a hobby. When that happens, a platform like Substack helps people transition the hobby to a job
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Or people could use alternative platforms like ghost.org instead of pulling up a chair at the Nazi bar
gustofwind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s just a blog platform and most of the people on it seem to be crazy or racist
They also try to call their blog posts “articles” and pretend substack isn’t just a blog platform for crazies
Triumph@fedia.io 1 day ago
While there are some jewels there (Robert Reich comes to mind), you're mostly right. It's LiveJournal for people who think they're journalists.
Ashtear@piefed.social 1 day ago
Forbes 2.0
j4k3@piefed.world 1 day ago
More junk stalkerware getting pushed. Try putting up a DNS white list (default blocking) firewall and then try white listing their servers. There are many many connections required to make it work and most make no logical sense. You’re running a ton of stalkerware junk in the background. Trusting that BS is a mistake IMO. Like if you need it for some reason, a virtual machine or separate hardware device and network are pragmatic.
socsa@piefed.social 1 day ago
It’s live journal for tryhards and pseudointellectuals.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s good stuff on there as well, but it’s mostly just the newest “every opinion has an asshole” platform.
dogbert@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s a platform that allows you to write and publish your own ideas.
Here is a great article about how systemic Jewish oppression is largely fabricated:
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not sure which content creators you’re referring to specifically or what you consider sudden but Substack has been around for a few years. Don’t know much about the subscription side other than the fact that authors can put content behind a paywall and make money off it. If you’re seeing people in a particular hobby or niche interest jumping aboard, it could be a follow-the-leader sort of thing where a few people found success there and now the rest want a piece of the pie.
Hard to say whether you’re missing out since your experience will be heavily dependent upon your interests and the quality of available content catering to those interests. Nothing’s stopping you from taking a look and deciding whether it’s your kind of place though.
kbal@fedia.io 1 day ago
There got to be enough money involved in blogging that someone finally succeeded in replacing it with a convenient, easy, well-advertised platform that they could enshittify and extract maximum profits from.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It’s not yet in its enshittification phase, so right now it seems like a good deal. But before you know it, blog posts there will be blocked by all kinds of overlays and whatnot, like they are on Medium these days.
droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s like an email list. Well more of a blogpost feed platform.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 day ago
I think a lot of people started using it after they paid slatestarcodex to start using it.
oeuf@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
It seems to be a way for people to have a paywalled blog without building their own website.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Substack platforms and enables the monetization of Nazi content:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/…/676156/
arstechnica.com/…/substacks-nazi-problem-wont-go-…
Do not give substack blogs any traffic! They are to be avoided like Twitter.
dogbert@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Really wish these articles could reference the supposed antisemitic blogs. Really interesting what happens when you actually follow up on this stuff.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Says the dude posting the Jewish antisemitism link… 🙄
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 1 day ago
White supremacy newsletters sound like something that should be utterly mocked.
“Welcome back to this edishun of White Like Me! In news this month, I’m still white. But I did get a nasty sunburn on account of how I done had to stand out in the sun for a half hour in my best y-fronts to fix that lazy Jim Bob’s truck before I could take it on date nite with my sister. I blame them coloured folks with their melanine and new world order ties to the Demoncrates weather control sattelights an theyre five gee! When Elon fills the sky with his sattelights, then we gon see some progress! Hail Elon!”