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Re: Substack Notes Launched

#11

Post by r053bud »

LegitShady wrote: post #9
ARandomerDude wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Maybe that's why Twitter had blocked retweeting links containing to Substack. That seems to have accelerated the shift for some to Substack [1] (imagine if Google blocked searches for Bing or Brave!). Suppressing Substack makes the Twitter brand look weak and nervous. 1. https://reason.com/2023/04/10/elon-musk-matt-taibbi-twitter-...

prediction - substack goes nowhere, like they currently are. Suppressing substack when substack is trying to advertise for a twitter competitor is just common sense. There's no need for twitter to advertise for a competitor. That isn't censorship, thats just normal business. If substack was depending on twitter for free data and free advertising they were the ones who were weak and nervous.

Twitter was supposed to be the "public square", even Elon said as much. Restricting which goods and services are sold or marketed in said square is a shift away from that mentality.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

#12

Post by rchaud »

abhayhegde wrote: post #2

Is that basically like Twitter then? A micro-blogging feature? Maybe that's why Twitter had blocked retweeting links containing to Substack.

It's admitting that managing infrastructure for email newsletters is not a viable business. After all, you can't serve people targeted third party ads with just email.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

#13

Post by coldpie »

For me, it's just an empty login form, and I'm not going to register an account just to see what's there.

I'm sympathetic to the idea of paying for content directly (I spend over $100/mo on Patreon), but I feel like Substack has cultivated a nasty branding issue for themselves. To me, and I know I'm not alone, Substack is where you go when you want to hear some 17-year-old who got high for the first time tell you what THE MANNNN doesn't want you to know, duuude. Greenwald and Taibbi and the like. I guess there's probably other types of content on there, but that's all I ever see from the domain.

Anyway I'm not going to register an account to see whatever's going on with Notes. Good luck, guys.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

#14

Post by dilap »

abhayhegde wrote: post #2

Is that basically like Twitter then? A micro-blogging feature? Maybe that's why Twitter had blocked retweeting links containing to Substack.

I think it was a bad move by Elon to ban (and good move to reverse, though some damage already done), but I see why he was pissed: it's a straight-up Twitter clone.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

#15

Post by runnerup »

rchaud wrote: post #12
abhayhegde wrote: post #2

Is that basically like Twitter then? A micro-blogging feature? Maybe that's why Twitter had blocked retweeting links containing to Substack.

It's admitting that managing infrastructure for email newsletters is not a viable business. After all, you can't serve people targeted third party ads with just email.

Why not? Could insert an ad into the email. Personalized for each recipient even.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

#16

Post by ugh0 »

coldpie wrote: post #13

For me, it's just an empty login form, and I'm not going to register an account just to see what's there. I'm sympathetic to the idea of paying for content directly (I spend over $100/mo on Patreon), but I feel like Substack has cultivated a nasty branding issue for themselves. To me, and I know I'm not alone, Substack is where you go when you want to hear some 17-year-old who got high for the first time tell you wha…

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Re: Substack Notes Launched

#17

Post by drcongo »

coldpie wrote: post #13

For me, it's just an empty login form, and I'm not going to register an account just to see what's there. I'm sympathetic to the idea of paying for content directly (I spend over $100/mo on Patreon), but I feel like Substack has cultivated a nasty branding issue for themselves. To me, and I know I'm not alone, Substack is where you go when you want to hear some 17-year-old who got high for the first time tell you wha…

You're not alone. Substack is also where former journalists publish when those pesky editors decide to fact check them and find them wanting.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

#18

Post by mjmsmith »

r053bud wrote: post #11
LegitShady wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

prediction - substack goes nowhere, like they currently are. Suppressing substack when substack is trying to advertise for a twitter competitor is just common sense. There's no need for twitter to advertise for a competitor. That isn't censorship, thats just normal business. If substack was depending on twitter for free data and free advertising they were the ones who were weak and nervous.

Twitter was supposed to be the "public square", even Elon said as much. Restricting which goods and services are sold or marketed in said square is a shift away from that mentality.

When you're even losing the other billionaires: https://mastodon.social/@malwaretech@infosec.exchange/110172...

Re: Substack Notes Launched

#19

Post by marcinzm »

LegitShady wrote: post #9
ARandomerDude wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Maybe that's why Twitter had blocked retweeting links containing to Substack. That seems to have accelerated the shift for some to Substack [1] (imagine if Google blocked searches for Bing or Brave!). Suppressing Substack makes the Twitter brand look weak and nervous. 1. https://reason.com/2023/04/10/elon-musk-matt-taibbi-twitter-...

prediction - substack goes nowhere, like they currently are. Suppressing substack when substack is trying to advertise for a twitter competitor is just common sense. There's no need for twitter to advertise for a competitor. That isn't censorship, thats just normal business. If substack was depending on twitter for free data and free advertising they were the ones who were weak and nervous.

As I see it if you have a significantly superior product then a competitor advertising on your platform is a positive since it just make you look even better in comparison. And a social media platform with 200 million daily users should be significantly superior to an identical clone with probably 1 million on a good day. Of course if you think you don't have a better product or that people hate your product that much then it's time to build moats and prevent people from jumping ship.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

#20

Post by ugh0 »

coldpie wrote: post #13

For me, it's just an empty login form, and I'm not going to register an account just to see what's there. I'm sympathetic to the idea of paying for content directly (I spend over $100/mo on Patreon), but I feel like Substack has cultivated a nasty branding issue for themselves. To me, and I know I'm not alone, Substack is where you go when you want to hear some 17-year-old who got high for the first time tell you wha…

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