NEW - Solar geoengineering researchers conspired to hide tests to dim the Sun to "avoid scaring" the public.
aha.
Anyway, nice to see the famous Substack network effects in full swing.
The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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cabbage@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
researchers conspired to hide tests to dim the Sun to “avoid scaring” the public.
Because if there’s one thing you can hide, it’s dimming the one thing that brings heat and light to the planet.
Fermion@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Ignoring conspiracy theory stuff, people aren’t very good at detecting changes in light levels if they happen gradually. During any solar eclipse there are wide bands where only a partial eclipse is observed. It’s pretty common for people in those bands to not notice that something has changed even with 50% occlusion.
cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
[deleted]cabbage@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Beware of increasingly white supremacists.
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
You’d think that, but I’ve had the command “get a tan for God’s sake you’re transparent” used as an insult against me. You can be too white for white supremacists.
truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Its probably talking about the UK stratospheric aerosol injection research. Like all conspiracy theories, just enough of a grain of truth.
unphazed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I really really hate that they call themselves a socialist party… like the KKK calling themselves Racial Unity.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Teeeeeeeeeeechnically, the term is correct, the Nazi regime did offer socialist benefits… Only for those they considered “nationals”, hence NatSoc.
Socialism alone does not guarantee democracy nor freedom of speech, it is strictly a financial system where the means of production are owned by society. The prefix “national” then defines who that society is.
unphazed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And yet it is used as the bogeyman anytime someone mentions the dirty word “socialism” in the US. Despite the fact that Socialism at this point would have to be better better than the crony capitalism we have now.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Socialism for white people only I guess?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s about attributing all the ills of society to a particular class (specifically the class in charge of the banks and other moneyed interests) and claiming that all violence and oppression directed toward them is justified.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can we talk about “afflicks” Choosing to spell like a 4 year old when spell check is pervasively available…
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Spell check might have been written by a jew or a black, can’t risk it. That’s how they get you.
peregrin5@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
i feel like I've never heard anything about substack and then all of a sudden out of nowhere i was hearing about it everywhere. never used it. now that I know it has a nazi/far-right problem, staying away from it by at least 1000 miles
custard_swollower@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some countries have pretty strict laws about not promoting Nazi ideology - by pushing that notifications it would probably be breaking that law.
cabbage@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah. Circulating random swastika-labelled push notifications talking about a sickness that "aflicks (?) all Jews" is a pretty big no-no in most, if not all, of the civilized world.
TheBat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
swastika
Nazis called their symbol Hakenkreuz (Hooked Cross).
For some reason, anglos chose to use Eastern religions’ term for their holy symbols.
r4venw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
“aflicks” -facepalm-
TheBat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Flicks starring Ben Affleck
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I get permitting these blogs as part of a commitment to avoid censorship - someone with non-mainstream but far less extreme opinions can look at them and say “If Substack doesn’t censor even these guys, it definitely won’t censor me.” With that said, I’m still surprised that Substack apparently doesn’t manually curate its push notifications.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Oh Substack what are you doing
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Nazi shit, again
Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
aflicks…
CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
LOL… “Aflicks”. He actually typed that out, and was like YEP aflicks is totally a word, send it! Idiot.
Hobo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sounds like the dollar store version of Ben Affleck’s, Bin Aflick.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Don’t these people have spellcheck? Like, if I try to enter a word like that, I’ll get a red line under it. What system are they using that doesn’t have spellcheck?
fluxion@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Trying to go the Elon Musk approach. Ballsy.
Coldgoron@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I looked for months for negatives to substack before starting my publications there. This is all news to me. Looking at the alternatives costing the creators a fee for zero subscribers leaves me with no choice but to stay for the moment being also. Hopefully a real contender pops up soon.
solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
How does geo engineering dim the sun?
geo-
word-forming element meaning “earth, the Earth,” ultimately from Greek geo-, combining form of Attic and Ionic gē “the earth, land, a land or country”
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well you see, it’s like, this whole “solar” “energy”, I done did tried to run my double-wide on two of those things with that U-B-S cable they come with, whole thing cost me around 30 dang-o smackaroos, and the little light was on saying it was “charging” all afternoon, but as soon as the sun went away, the light went away! Now how does a light know if it’s daytime or not? Damn cia alien shit, just you wait. Then after a little while, it stopped charging my air compressor I use for my lady doll. Worst 30 bucks ever, all I got was blue balled and confused. Harbor Freight won’t take en back either, feller was giving me a weird look when I tried to explain with my doll. Poor bastard ain’t seen a pair of tits before or somethin.
I started a petition on truth social to bring back the sun at all times, so that myself and others don’t get scammed by this “energy”. Has over 64,000 signatures, mmmhm. It’s all the damn libs fault, stealing our sun. Who’s idea was it to have it go away anyway? Buncha dumbasses.
(fuck I think I lost brain cells but hopefully I created a character that everyone can see clearly in their mind. and yes I know geothermal [or whatever they think it is] isn’t solar, that’s part of the joke.)
solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It really does say something about the audience they’re targeting
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The full post by linked source Taylor Lorenz about this appears here on her Patreon (openly readable, not locked as of now).
She still writes on Substack, though, which ultimately works in support of This Sort of Thing.
yonderbarn@lazysoci.al 3 weeks ago
Shitstack. Everyone and their mother has a substack and a lot of it just low quality “articles.” Meanwhile the company is trying to attract investors by claiming it’s a tech company when it’s really a mediocre media company.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s almost like Substack has a Nazi problem and has for years.
Stop pretending substack isn’t a Nazi platform, because they actively support Nazi propaganda on their site and have refused to take it down or commit to keeping it off their platform.
Substack is run by Nazi supporters at the very least, which should be enough for people to flee in droves, but more people are ok with Nazis than we want to admit.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yes, this has come up repeatedly over the years.
The problem is that it is really the only viable platform for independent articles/blogs these days. That is already a ridiculously small potential audience (people who can read AND people who are willing to pay for content). Cutting out the one platform that got any traction is as good as quitting.
It is similar to why businesses (which is what we are talking about) couldn’t leave twitter until like a year and a half ago or whenever bluesky went open sign ups. Yeah, it is a platform owned by nazis and infested with them but… it is also the only way to advertise said businesses and have any hope of surviving. That said, once bluesky gained traction there is absolutely zero reason to not, at the very least, diversify (preferably dropping musknet entirely).
For Substack? Ghost is an increasingly viable platform. But just look around here for any time someone posts a link to a 404 media article and you get “Ugh. Fucking scammers want to rugpull and steal all my personal information” for… wanting ANY email to be used for a free account to just limit the impact of bot/ai scraping.
Its less that “more people are ok with Nazis than we want to admit”… especially considering many of the people on substack are talking about said fucking Nazis. The problem is that “fewer people are willing to support independent media than we want to admit”. It is the same logic of “if I like a youtube channel I’ll give them money on their patreon” that is patently flawed.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t want to create a fucking account on every single fucking website I enter to read shit article about some random bullshit
That’s just making the internet even shittier place than it already is.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So true, but I think Patreon will be the place to submit my articles. I deleted my Substack over this. You can make your post free and offer paid teirs what I do.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I use Ghost for my blog and don’t have any trackers nor do I require emails.
So I wouldn’t attribute that to Ghost but rather attribute it to 404Media.
That said, I disagree, there are blogging platforms other than Substack. Sub stack is just the current popular choice and people are too lazy to move unless they personally have a problem.
Unfortunately blogging next to Nazi propaganda isn’t a problem for those people.
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How does it compare to lemmy?
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve never seen open support for Nazis being left up after being reported on instances that haven’t been defederated, so it’s better without question.
cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Lemmy is more like Reddit than Substack. Ghost would be the Substack equivalent.