Jeff Atwoodpeople still on substack are like "(fetches fainting couch) but mah clicks! my metrics!" You know what, fuck your clicks, fuck your metrics, and FUCK YOU. Grow a backbone, you absolute cowards. I do not, and will not, give any quarter to fundamental assaults on human dignity and civil rights.
read the truth, people. Fuck complicity. And most of all, fuck the so-called "leadership" at substack. I lose a little bit more respect for anyone still on that platform, month after month. Look. Take my advice and do as you please.
InterestingMoo
Fritz Adalis@codinghorror
I mean I agree with your premise, but using a grok screenshot or whatever to prove your point is about on par with quoting the bible in multiple ways.
I mean I agree with your premise, but using a grok screenshot or whatever to prove your point is about on par with quoting the bible in multiple ways.
@FritzAdalis Grok? Really? Ya went there? Provide alternate citations if you like.
Jairaj Devadiga@codinghorror @FritzAdalis I must agree with Fritz. We don't like Substack because of all the nazis it is willing to host.
We don't like Grok because Elon Musk is also a nazi.
I was going to dig up some links, but I see that Mathew has provided numerous alternative citations below.
@jairajdevadiga @codinghorror
To be fair I don't think it's actually Grok, I just wanted to poke him a little. And I think he hates... Anthropic? So maybe Chatgpt.
To be fair I don't think it's actually Grok, I just wanted to poke him a little. And I think he hates... Anthropic? So maybe Chatgpt.
@FritzAdalis @jairajdevadiga the one that actually believes they are creating sentient life. The cult. That one, buddy.
Malcontent Creator 
@geist @FritzAdalis @jairajdevadiga "use your voice"? I actually physically write in all caps in real life BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS YELLING .. at people who need to fix their shit
G@codinghorror @FritzAdalis "alternate citations"? Alternate to what. Your generated text?
I mean, I know substack is awful I don't need any citations.
mathew@FritzAdalis @codinghorror I refer people to https://leavesubstack.com which has a bunch of links. One of the recent detailed ones is https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters
@mathew @FritzAdalis thank you for this!
Herr Bischoff@codinghorror 100%. I now close the browser tab immediately when I encounter something on Substack. I’m entirely disinterested in whatever someone has to say who choses to remain there. It may not be a full-on Nazi bar yet, but I don’t go to places where Nazis, racists, bigots, haters and other pieces of shit are tolerated and even paid. I’m also not going to be polite about it. Fuck this. Fuck them.
zbrown@codinghorror eeeeeewwwww, cite the actual authors writing about substack, not some statistically average slop based on their stolen work
@zbrown feel free to make that happen if you beleive so strongly in it!
@codinghorror oh dear, looks like your planet killer failed to summarise my point correctly
@codinghorror ofc fuck substack, but did you just prompt an ai system for this? lol
𝓙. 𝓜.@codinghorror it's exactly the same reasoning people give to stay on Twitter, long after... (vaguely motions towards the horizon) all of this happened.
scully@codinghorror better than the progressives who tell me that it’s a free speech issue as if right wing fascists don’t have enough platforms. 🙄
Esther Payne 
@rickscully @codinghorror People always love to go on about Free Speech, but Freedom of Association in Safety is also another human right.
Staying on Substack while it pretty much makes the "we're in a big tent" argument kinda makes it clear you don't give a toss about others human rights.
Our human rights are limited by the effects we have on other folks human rights.
@onepict @rickscully Freedom to leave the Nazi Bar is the most fundamental one of all. So let me get this straight: there are ZERO other websites on the internet where you can publish content? You MUST post here, where the founders explicitly and unapologetically allow hate speech? You can Associate in Safety at a hundred other websites. Unless there's something "special" about Substack that you can explain to us all?
Always bookmarked:
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/free_speech.png
No one is suppressing right wing speech. There are whole tv and internet channels devoted to them.
Shane Celis@codinghorror 1940s FASCISTS: I was just following orders.
2020s FASCISTS: I was just following clicks.
Mike Taylor 🦕@shanecelis @codinghorror "I was just increasing shareholder value."
Court Cantrell won't conform@shanecelis @codinghorror ...like dogs trained to respond to a clicker.
Duke@codinghorror I created a filter using the keyword "substack", which was working great for a while. Unfortunately, that seems to have been removed from a lot of their URLs now. After getting fooled into opening a bunch of 'stealth' links where you can't tell until you scroll all the way to the bottom, I've now added a filter for "/p/" and that seems to be catching the rest (so far). Fuck shitstack! 🤬
Clare Hooley@DukeDuke @codinghorror I don’t think it’s been ‘removed’ from the URLs, it’s always been a paid-for feature to use your own domain. So anyone who’s done that has actually chosen to give substack their own real money and not just not a cut of their subscribers’ money. I understand there’s a cdn you can block to get them all, because there are themes that are remarkably similar between substack, ghost and beehiiv.
@clare_hooley @codinghorror Good to know, thanks!
@clare_hooley @DukeDuke @codinghorror Yes, if you block substackcdn.com then any SS site will show up without its CSS regardless of domain, acting as a warning.
happyborg@codinghorror Ditto Medium. Fuck that capitalist shit. It literally kills people.
Dopes The Frogman@codinghorror but but but people love the familiar and fear change.
CHANGE HIIIIISSSSSSSS HISS HISS!
🏳️🌈 Happy Pride-onphan! 🏳️⚧️@codinghorror Still waiting for @godpod and @mswmedia to make the switch to Ghost or some other non-Nazi platforms.
bovaz@codinghorror
and twitter.
and facebook.
and instagram.
yeah.
And at the same time some very rich people will soon fly to the US to entertain Trump with the FIFA World Cup, while they'd literally have nothing to lose by boycotting it.
and twitter.
and facebook.
and instagram.
yeah.
And at the same time some very rich people will soon fly to the US to entertain Trump with the FIFA World Cup, while they'd literally have nothing to lose by boycotting it.
Jo - pièce de résistance@bovaz @codinghorror
I left Facebook & Instagram right after The Great Hack opened & learned what they did with Cambridge Analytica. I left Twitter when Elon bought it.
I have not subscribed to any entertainment subscription since 2023 writer’s & sag-aftra strike.
I found little watchable anyway bc so much was dystopia propaganda, copaganda, militarized heroes, & terrible stories.
I boycott & cut out so much. I hope people will also put their money where their mouth is, but they rarely do.
I left Facebook & Instagram right after The Great Hack opened & learned what they did with Cambridge Analytica. I left Twitter when Elon bought it.
I have not subscribed to any entertainment subscription since 2023 writer’s & sag-aftra strike.
I found little watchable anyway bc so much was dystopia propaganda, copaganda, militarized heroes, & terrible stories.
I boycott & cut out so much. I hope people will also put their money where their mouth is, but they rarely do.
Deb Nam-Krane@codinghorror There are some things that are really difficult to take a stand on in public. There are some things that are really difficult to boycott, especially if you're someone that doesn't have a lot of options.
Reading SS falls into neither of these categories. If people didn't get curious when they heard about Nazis on SS--or if they know it's a thing and stayed--nope, sorry, you have none of my sympathy. Also, the majority of the writers are going to get sucked dry, as with most grifts.