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It's very unlikely Substack will still be around when you die, if you're younger than 60.
What if I'm 74? ;-)
If you're in Canada, or a G7/EU nation, it's in the 80s, so you may have 10+ years to go, so the chances of Substack being around in the same form for that time period is lower.
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Its the terminating argument for FOSS hackers. When there is no good argument left, they fall onto that. "You're only going to get 20 years of use out of this proprietary service before you'll need to spend a few hours switching off! You must switch now!"
You get 3 years and then you cannot switch off, your thing is simply destroyed.
I'm one of the creators of Leaflet - https://leaflet.pub - also mentioned in another comment. We're making a publishing app kind of like Substack or Ghost, but connected to the open social ecosystem building on AT Protocol. There a lot of potential here, and a lot of tools that already exist. We collaborated with other publishing apps (pckt & Offprint) to make Standard.site - https://standard.site - a simple set of s…
can't we just make RSS cool again?!
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>"just because he thinks men shouldn't use women's bathrooms and spaces" You're telling on yourself with this one, transphobe. Lineham is an anti-trans activist. There's quite literally a whole section on his Wikipedia page dedicated to it, in fact it's the longest section on there. He's practically dedicated his life to the cause.
Sorry not sorry, but Substack isn't going to run off Lineham because he thinks that people with a dick shouldn't be in a female locker room.
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> The social networks are big because they have genuine utility. I think this is mostly wrong, and that the social networks are big primarily because they spent money at the right time to create entrenched network effects that allow them to rent-seek ever after. The quality and innovation of the services themselves (especially simple sites like twitter/X) is not the moat. At a technical level, most are easily clone-a…
> but because "everyone is there." That ubiquity is the only "genuine utilty" they are offering you. Sure. So what? You nonetheless cannot deny the utility. The friends that I have made from social networks are no less real. I am very grateful they (the means to discover these people now in my life) exist.
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Email is so well designed, so resilient, and so ubiquitous that's very hard to displace it's use as a central check-in.
Right which is why I'd only suggest the browser as an alternative. Imho a browser is something I open when I proactively am seeking information/entertainment and thereby fits blog reading better than email which is more like an interrupt.
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What if I'm 74? ;-)
If you're in the US, average life expectancy is 79, so it will probably be fine for the next ~5 years. If you're in Canada, or a G7/EU nation, it's in the 80s, so you may have 10+ years to go, so the chances of Substack being around in the same form for that time period is lower.
Great idea. Recently, I’ve decided to get back into blogging. It’s surprisingly easy these days. I already have a domain on Cloudflare, and I had Codex build a simple blogging system for me. I write everything in Markdown, the site is hosted on Cloudflare, comments are stored in Cloudflare D1, and all articles live in the repository as Markdown files. GitHub Actions takes care of publishing automatically and also per…
This is not a simple setup. Most people would be just fine with a static site that can be hosted for free on Netlify, Cloudfare Pages, GitHub Pages and so on.
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> There's one NYT link on the Andreessen Horowitz article I see no mention of the far right in the article; the only NYT source with "right" in the title that I can find is "The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly", but this is only being used to cite Boyle investing in some aerospace/miltech companies. As for Marc, we're at multiple layers of guilt by association now, but even so I don't see what's extreme abou…
> I see no mention of the far right in the article I see no mention of the far right in Taylor Lorenz's article. I do see mentions of Donald Trump, DOGE, and the Republican party in the NYT article cited in the "Politics" section. As I understand, these entities are considered "right-wing" in US terms, and many of their actions would certainly be considered "extreme". ("Extreme" is somewhat subjective, so for the sak…
By "contemporary" I meant contemporary to today, since those are the people who would potentially be doing these Substacks. I guess that was the wrong word.