Yeah, while I understand it's better than the alternative which is either nothing or completely enshittified sites run by VC assholes, I really have reservations about substack being the way forward, besides the Nazi issue, it's inherently a "walled garden". I often want to send an article from a substack I subscribe to a friend but I ca…
Yeah, while I understand it's better than the alternative which is either nothing or completely enshittified sites run by VC assholes, I really have reservations about substack being the way forward, besides the Nazi issue, it's inherently a "walled garden". I often want to send an article from a substack I subscribe to a friend but I can't because they're paywalled. (I realize there are workarounds for this but I don't always want to deal with them). Yes of course it's good to subscribe but how many substacks can one person subscribe to? I remember during the long ago debate over "net neutrality" there was this argument that if we didn't have it we'd eventually live in a reality where you'd have to pay to use each different website. This seems to be substacks goal! This doesn't apply to Episodic Medium but another thing I don't like about substack is that it encourages people to be more extreme and become pundits instead of journalists. Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald used to be actual journalists believe it or not and worked for respected publications with editors. Now they're just dumb ass conservative pundits for a credulous audience on substack. To me the substackification of journalism is part of the same process that led to the death of good publications like the AV Club
Yeah, while I understand it's better than the alternative which is either nothing or completely enshittified sites run by VC assholes, I really have reservations about substack being the way forward, besides the Nazi issue, it's inherently a "walled garden". I often want to send an article from a substack I subscribe to a friend but I can't because they're paywalled. (I realize there are workarounds for this but I don't always want to deal with them). Yes of course it's good to subscribe but how many substacks can one person subscribe to? I remember during the long ago debate over "net neutrality" there was this argument that if we didn't have it we'd eventually live in a reality where you'd have to pay to use each different website. This seems to be substacks goal! This doesn't apply to Episodic Medium but another thing I don't like about substack is that it encourages people to be more extreme and become pundits instead of journalists. Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald used to be actual journalists believe it or not and worked for respected publications with editors. Now they're just dumb ass conservative pundits for a credulous audience on substack. To me the substackification of journalism is part of the same process that led to the death of good publications like the AV Club