I do not know if this is possible, but one of the things I need in order to make Mastodon my primary social media, is a labeler that tells me when a newsletter in a dot com or dot net domain is actually on Substack.
Because #SubstackHasANaziProblem, and I'm fed up with following deceptive links only to find out I gave another click/view to the Nazi bar.
I have a long thread on Bluesky with links to guides on how to migrate newsletters off Substack and onto Ghost, Buttondown, beehiiv. I'm sure there are other alternatives (I have no idea how Medium or Wordpress would handle this, for example), but the point is: progressive writers can show the way to marginalized communities by leaving the Nazi bar for anti-fascist spaces.
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https://bsky.app/profile/azteclady.bsky.social/post/3lhue2esgus24
Because, again, once these progressive writers can't easily migrate their subscriptions off the Nazi-bar, *their entire livelihood will be dependent on keeping the Nazi-bar owners happy*. How many will choose their stated principles over paying the mortgage?
(Hint: they're still on Substack., and, as we all know, #SubstackHasANaziProblem )
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If this troubles you, and you are in good enough terms (aka, have a large enough platform they'll actually notice you), you may want to let them know about it.
Or you may want to stop supporting the people who prop up the Nazi bar, before the platform forces them to write propaganda themselves.
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However, if you check, you, dear reader, may be shocked to discover how many of the progressive content you read, by some very well known names with great street cred, is actually sold through the Nazi bar, passing the Nazi bar owner a share of the fee YOU pay them.
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Now, I suspect that many of the ~serious political~ writers pontificating on fascism in the U.S. are very aware of Substack's Nazi problem, which is why they hide their use of the platform behind dot com names.
On Bluesky, there's a labeler that shows when ostensibly "dot com" or "dot net" links are for newsletters on substack--I don't believe there's an equivalent on Mastodon.
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Now that Substack is using Apple to process payments, their readers there will have to pay more to read their newsletter, and soon, should they decided to throttle who beyond their existing subscribers sees their writing, they won't be able to migrate those subscriptions to a different platform.
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https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/substack-just-killed-creator-economy
Even self-professed progressive writers with large subscriber numbers *on Substack* wrote there about the Nazi propaganda that *their* subscribers got!
There are so many well-known progressives writing about fascism on the Nazi-propaganda platform, the cognitive dissonance has to be epic indeed.
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No writer on Substack making substantial money off the platform can *not* know that the platform uses part of the subscribers' fees to fund Bari Weis and other Nazi propaganda they funnel to ALL subscribers, not only those who already subscribe to Nazi newsletters. It even made the news!
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https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-extemist-nazi-problem-update
After the most recent Bluesky CEO public meltdown (reported brilliantly by Nico Mara-McKay 👇🏽), I can't but think about all the progressive writers who continue to publish their newsletters through Substack's soon-to-be-walled platform.
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