Am I missing out?
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
What is Substack and why all the sudden do all the content creators seem to be on it?
Submitted 3 days ago by Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Triumph@fedia.io 3 days 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.
FoolsQuartz@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
most of the people on it seem to be crazy or racist
Yeah I would credit that to twitter, which is how it spreads.
I’m not deep into the world of online blog congregators but I think medium is the clean alternative to Substack.
9point6@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s a place that lets people charge subscriptions for blogs.
Avoid it and encourage others to do the same
j4k3@piefed.world 3 days 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.
dogbert@lemmy.zip 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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.
FoolsQuartz@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
It’s a place for twitter users to roleplay as intellectual essayists (okay some of them are totally worthwhile tbf) because twitter itself is designed for sharing brainfarts rather than cognizant thoughts
droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s like an email list. Well more of a blogpost feed platform.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 days ago
I think a lot of people started using it after they paid slatestarcodex to start using it.
oeuf@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
It seems to be a way for people to have a paywalled blog without building their own website.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago
Says the dude posting the Jewish antisemitism link… 🙄