David
somecanuckchickSTOP. USING. SUBSTACK.
Dane 🌎🖖✌️☮️⚛️☸️🕉️
Matthew 
@somecanuckchick I wish more people self-host their own blogs and bonus point if they also have a RSS Feed
@matty I don't know why buy a domain name and then use substack... WTAF IS SO DIFFICULT ABOUT WORDPRESS AND RSS FEEDS?!?
@somecanuckchick WordPress also has some controversy around the CEO unfortunately. Man, I love tech companies are total POS where it's hard to find one who have basic decency.. 🥹
@matty It is NOT that hard to install ANY OTHER BLOG software to one's domain... seriously. Substack is worse than Wordpress... Wordpress has issues, fine. There's a lot of easy options out there w/o using absolute f*cking garbage.
@matty I started following a number of people who made the leap to Substack and it's f*cking gutt-wrenching to STOP following them... but, like, Substack is worse than herpes, at this point.
@somecanuckchick Same. It's like I want to support JackFlim's Credit The Creator as he promotes small creators but it's hosted on Substack. I just wish he self-hosted his own blog or something.. anything but that platform would be nice
@matty Substack just needs to DIAF.
Barton Lorimor@matty @somecanuckchick What is your preferred CMS?
@matty Plenty of domain sellers offer blog software that's NOT Substack... there's lots of opensource options. Cripes.
derptron@somecanuckchick One of the local chapters of one of the big protest groups right now decided to move their email list to substack. I actually offered to, for free, set up some sort of alternative for them that gets them what they need.
Instead of taking me up on it or even responding at all, one of the last things they post before we're having to sign up with substack to get updates is that lots of progressives use substack.
So yeah, I left.
LevkaModern Germans have a saying: If ten Nazis are sitting at a table and someone sits down with them, how many Nazis are at the table? Eleven.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.@somecanuckchick If someone doesn't know what they would use that isn't substack, they should try #Ghost https://ghost.org/vs/substack/
Tim Chambers@BoydStephenSmithJr @somecanuckchick Fully endorse Ghost.
Stefan Bohacek@tchambers Same!
Quite a few publications are now posting in the fediverse thanks to them!
Mastodon Migration@tchambers @BoydStephenSmithJr @somecanuckchick
💯! Ask @molly0xfff who's brilliant newsletter Citation Needed on the crypto industry is on Ghost.
https://www.citationneeded.news/
Molly makes much more on Ghost than she would be pulling in on Substack.
@tchambers @BoydStephenSmithJr @somecanuckchick @molly0xfff
And it's easy to migrate from Substack to Ghost
https://docs.ghost.org/migration/substack
What are you waiting for?
Theriac@somecanuckchick
You can just set up an account on an instance with a different fediverse platform to have different feature sets - I'll quote one of my older posts here about what other options there are.
When I was looking at starting using the fediverse, I spent a week going through the explore feature of all the main instances of the available platforms and went with the one that matched what I was looking for most.
I'm on a Sharkey instance, a platform which has media features suitable for fixed long-form/ blog type posts - so basically substack or wordpress - without the attenuated problems of either. Here's one of my static long form "pages":
https://plasmatrap.com/@Theriac/pages/1688381243651
Sharkey is very user friendly with a tutorial available the first time you use a new account. It has a generous (3k) character count for posts like this, and can quote other posts like I have here.
I can get to media I've used as it's stored in a dedicated image library for my account, called "Drive" in the UI. I can upload or pull media from an url and store it in the Drive, and from the Drive check which other posts have used the image or just add it to posts, manage/edit the ALT data
You can just set up an account on an instance with a different fediverse platform to have different feature sets - I'll quote one of my older posts here about what other options there are.
When I was looking at starting using the fediverse, I spent a week going through the explore feature of all the main instances of the available platforms and went with the one that matched what I was looking for most.
I'm on a Sharkey instance, a platform which has media features suitable for fixed long-form/ blog type posts - so basically substack or wordpress - without the attenuated problems of either. Here's one of my static long form "pages":
https://plasmatrap.com/@Theriac/pages/1688381243651
Sharkey is very user friendly with a tutorial available the first time you use a new account. It has a generous (3k) character count for posts like this, and can quote other posts like I have here.
I can get to media I've used as it's stored in a dedicated image library for my account, called "Drive" in the UI. I can upload or pull media from an url and store it in the Drive, and from the Drive check which other posts have used the image or just add it to posts, manage/edit the ALT data
Mallory 🏳️⚧️
@somecanuckchick Revealed: How The Guardian makes money from hosting anti-trans newsletters
Taran Rampersad@somecanuckchick stop using Stripe.
They collect the payments.