I've been interacting happily on Substack for well over a year; yet to even see a bit of a right-wing post
It's not the platform; it's the people we choose to meet there
There is a vast amount of quite wonderful material distributed through Substack, which gets missed due to this kind of prejudice
The moderate people drinking at the Nazi bar help legitimatize the Nazis there.
how about we have spaces where everyone can have their say, and we each choose who we listen to or interact with or put down?
The irony is deafening.
@libramoon If you check the articles I linked, you can see that Substack has a recommendation system which is known for recommending far-right, extremist writers. Likewise, they have an editorial team - they pick writers to bring onboard, they pay those people big money to join. (It's not just a self-serve, self-publish platform.) And their institutional bias has been to the right.
@libramoon You talk about spaces where everyone can have their say, but Substack isn't a neutral content pipe. It's company with a point of view; people can choose whether they like that point of view or not.
every human has a point of view
I have my experiences, on which I base mine
I've been through many social networks where both right and left extremes were loudly represented
I have yet to have right wing views pushed on me, or otherwise evidenced in my interactions on substack
how about, if you don't want to ignore the Nazi presence, you use it to ridicule them?
you do know, we are all at the bar, all the time, no matter our political persuasions
happy for your amusement
Misty
libramoon
James Britt