"The 'Why I’m Leaving Substack' post is the new 'Goodbye to All That,'” writes Sarah Scrier for NiemanLab. Some top newsletter writers — including Anne Helen Petersen, Lyz Lenz, and Virginia Sole-Smith — have left Substack for Patreon. Email delivery issues, poor technical support and an overemphasis on social features were reasons for their departure. Both Petersen and Lenz also referenced Substack's platforming of Nazis and hate speech in their farewell notes. Here's more.

https://flip.it/L22UTT

#Media #News #Publishing #Substack #Patreon #Newsletters #LyzLenz #AnneHelenPetersen #VirginiaSoleSmith

My fav #LyzLenz on why celebrities - and all of us - seem stuck

“[O]ur institutions have not been able to change fast enough. Holding Trump accountable for a number of appalling crimes hasn’t stopped him from continuing to run. Having Roe as settled law didn’t stop activist Supreme Court judges from overturning it. As our society has changed and progressed, our institutions have been stuck, ill-equipped to grapple with the questions of our time”

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/are-jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-getting-divorce-americans-obsessively-n-rcna154923

“…the lesson I learned was that when people want you to be less, they never wanted you in the first place.”

https://lyz.substack.com/p/dinguses-2022

#feminism #lyzlenz