@anildash I just recently went onto substack and the overriding opinion here is that it's as much of a dumpster fire for writers as DeadBird is for journalists.

I didn't know if the people I followed there are very keen to keep the monetization treadmill going by publishing clickbaitish stuff. It's why I stopped following @georgetakei a couple years ago. Oh my indeed.

I was quite disappointed by @Popehat putting his meaty podcast in a subscription tier. I guess the days of ALL THE PRESIDENTS LAWYERS are gone now that he knows he's got a ready-made audience.

I'll see if substack is worth my time but the few newsletters I've read the last couple days are pointing in the NO direction. YMMV.