Anil DashApr 7, 2023
The lesson isn’t just that you have to get off of Twitter; the lesson is you also have to get off of Substack.
Show threadAlex StamosApr 7, 2023
@anildash It’s a very different pathology on Substack, where the need to constantly tell your paying subscribers what they want to hear serves as your editor.
Show threadJohn BreenApr 7, 2023
@alex @anildash I'm having trouble understanding why that's a different model from WaPo or NYT ?
Show threadErik Sherman Apr 7, 2023

@jab01701mid @alex @anildash

Because then your editors tell you what *they* want to hear.

Show threadJohn Breen
@eriksherman @alex @anildash Maybe I'm lost in the terms - a substack author is a publisher, not an editor, in my view. NYT and WaPo are publishers, they also employ editors. substack publishers are their own editor...
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Show threadErik Sherman Apr 8, 2023
@jab01701mid @alex @anildash someone said that substack writers write what their audiences want to hear and I was saying the difference in a newspaper was saying what an editor wanted to hear. I wouldn't worry about whether to consider the substack writer a publisher or editor or writer. It's beyond the point.