Ben WerdmullerFeb 7
This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

The Guardian
Show threadTaran RampersadFeb 8

@ben it is pretty interesting to me that everyone is looking for a platform when they could simply be their own and not be subject to changes in policies, etc, on centralized platforms.

Seeing this on the fediverse seems incongruent.

Something like technorati used to be could simply pull rss from writer sites and share them in a federated way.

And the article itself... yeah. But I would have found a way to squeeze the genocide that is still happening now into it.

Show threadBen Werdmuller
@knowprose I’ve been an indieweb advocate for a very long time and ran an indieweb platform. My take is that most people don’t want the maintenance overhead. That means choosing a turnkey platform - of which Ghost and WordPress are the obvious standouts because of the lack of lock-in.
Feb 8 at 1:27pmWeb
Show threadTaran RampersadFeb 8

@ben agreed.

We want convenience without responsibility.

Nothing new here.

Writing something now on this. On my platform. 🤣

Show threadTaran RampersadFeb 8

@ben

If you're bored.... part 2 is also done. I will spare you the toot. 🤣 if you are interested, you will find it.
https://realityfragments.com/2026/02/08/substack-and-the-elephants-in-the-room-1-of-2/

Substack And the Elephants In The Room (1 of 2) - RealityFragments.com

The resurgence of the Nazism-Substack discussion has surfaced again, and I’ve seen plenty written about it. I have a few things to write. This is one of two. What’s largely missing is this: while most sane people agree that Nazism is bad, the genocide in Gaza—happening in full view of the world—is rarely mentioned in

RealityFragments.com - Personal scribblings of Taran.