This has just been posted:
I don’t think it is just the outright Nazis but all the fellow travellers and adjacent terrible people.
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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 week ago
Inb4 “Substack Nazis boo Nazis Nazis Nazis.” That is incorrect. There were only like 3 neo-Nazis, with about 10 followers apiece, but anyway they kicked them all out some time back now, because the entire internet was yelling at them.
I think it’s highly likely that someone who is screaming at you about how Substack is full of Nazis and officially “bad” probably is either just looking for an opportunity to yell and virtue-signal about how their purity test is more pointlessly pure than yours is, and not up to date on anything about the reality they’re talking about, or else they’re motivated by not wanting you and I to read Tim Snyder and Robert Reich. Either way the Nazis are mostly just an excuse.
I’m not planning to post any Nazi blogs. Everyone can relax.
Emperor@feddit.uk 1 week ago
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 week ago
That was actually what inspired me to post this here. We’d been talking about it in the comments over there.
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Do you have sources for these claims?
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 week ago
pcmag.com/…/substack-changes-its-mind-will-remove…
I asked this dude to show me some Nazis on Substack, because he was extremely upset about it. Guess who they insisted should do their own research, instead of him having to show them?
ponder.cat/post/1720133/1955701
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 week ago
For what it’s worth, I hadn’t seen that article before, so I was honestly curious about more up to date info on the situation since what I’d last seen.
sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Canadaland mentioned it in an episode a while back. I think it’s this one: canadaland.com/…/1059-substacks-founder-on-news-m…
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 week ago
About 38 minutes in (after scrubbing through to find it, please podcasters include transcripts) I think I found what you were thinking of. However it’s one of the other people that uses the platform mentioning something they’d seen suggesting what OP mentioned, without saying where they saw it.