Two things:
1. This is a great summary of how morally and ethically bankrupt Substack's actual position is. They currently prohibit calls to violence, doxxing, harmful activities, and porn. So they clearly think speech is something they have every right to limit on their platform (and they're right about that). They just don't want to limit nazi speech because, well, we're left to assume that they just like nazis.
https://popehat.substack.com/p/substack-has-a-nazi-opportunity
And 2. Posts like this show the absolute futility of complaining about the platform on the platform. All Substack cares about is usage: new posts, more clicks, more eyeballs, more subscribers. Giving them usage, even usage complaining about them, is still giving them exactly what they want.
If you think Substack is acting immorally and creating a worse world, AND THEY ARE, get your ass off the platform.
@fraying I just unsubscribed from all but one Substack list I was on (that were active enough that I had emails from them in the past few years) I noticed that mostly I hadn’t actually read any of them. I also noted that more than a few had already migrated to other platforms (good!)
(The one I didn’t unsubscribe from is from a personal friend / writing group member whom I’ll talk with first about suggestions for where she could move her list - so didn’t unsubscribe until after I talk with her)
Derek Powazek 🐐
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