Glenn FleishmanPeople keep making new Substack newsletters. I keep pointing out politely that the founders are terrible enablers of transphobes, hate speech, vaccine denial, and more. They reap their reward from fear, hate, and disinformation.
It's a technically and economically great platform and a terrible moral choice to have to make.
John Gruber@glennf Do you feel the same way about WordPress? I feel like Substack is really just a CMS, not a publisher.
@gruber WordPress isn't structured as a quasi-publisher, engaged in paying advances, promoting content, and handling payment distribution. WordPress also seems to enforce its rules about acceptable content, which are fairly broad, but which limit the ability of people to disseminate hateful content. Substack isn’t a Twitter or even a Medium. But it appears to pretend it does not derive a significant benefit from the worst aspects of its platform, and does not enforce its rules honestly.
Kirk McElhearn@glennf @gruber Wordpress is certainly heading in that direction.
https://wordpress.com/blog/2022/12/19/write-and-publish-your-newsletter-on-wordpress-com/
And they run Woocommerce.
@mcelhearn @gruber It's a subset of their potential business and I hope they keep enforcing rules!