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Post by Cardinal7167 »

jpmattia wrote: post #115

It wasn't like Twitter's business had a large technical barrier-to-entry. And Musk seems to be pissing away his non-technical barrier-to-entry just about as hard as he can. Good luck to Substack on eating twitter's lunch! Edit: That said, I've found mastodon (@jpmattia@mastodon.mit.edu) to be a much more pleasant interaction compared to twitter, so I'm curious what the landscape looks like in a couple of years.

The great shake up has started. Google pissing their pants with AIs abrupt arrival, Twitter dying a death by a million cuts, Facebook in mid-air making their VR play, the tech skyline will look very different in 5 years.

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Post by bmarquez »

ghiculescu wrote: post #48

I love Substack. But apart from to mess with Twitter I really don’t understand the point of this. https://substack.com/profile/241262-casey-newton/note/c-1446... I’d a good summary. I don’t want to subscribe to hundreds of newsletters to see tweet (sorry, notes). But if you change that setup, it really is a Twitter clone with no upside to writers.

I don't like it either. I use Substack (and previously Medium) when I want to read long-form content instead of tweets. If I wanted tweets, I'd use Twitter.

But Substack Notes allows for greater potential monetization (ick): TikTok style content, algorithmic recommendations, and ads. Especially ads.

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Post by AlbertCory »

galdor wrote: post #98
AlbertCory wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elon showing the number of impressions a tweet or reply actually got was an eye-opener for me. Probably about 1-2% of "Followers" -- not just mine but most people's. Twitter has been completely worthless anyway for promoting my Substack channel. In their Dashboard, it doesn't even show up in the top five referers.

I’m curious, what works better than Twitter for this kind of use case? Mastodon is better than Twitter for me, but it still is very slow.

I'm not on Mastodon. So that works?

Actually, this site is usually the best, and Facebook (the latter might reflect my audience).

Reddit subs tend to censor any attempt at self-promotion, which you can't blame them for, I guess. And StackExchange is the absolute worst. The level of asshole-ness there has to be seen to be believed.

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Post by 1attice »

I honestly can't imagine a better marketing campaign for Substack Notes than Elon 'Streisand Effect' Musk's ongoing shenanigans.

I'm left in awe of the wranglers at SpaceX and Tesla who have managed to keep the companies in question profitable despite being surgically sewn to a narcissistic fauntleroy

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Post by tedmiston »

s1k3s wrote: post #104

Does anyone know what software they use to make these short demo videos? I see them in lots of app landing pages and I'm curious how to make them.

Minus the background color, the drop shadow is the same as how it looks when you do this in QuickTime > New Screen Recording > Capture Selected Window.

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Post by noirscape »

tootie wrote: post #129
keiferski wrote: post #79

Substack has been adding a lot of random features lately and it makes me worry that they will lose focus on the email newsletter aspect of their platform, which is what I like about it.

There's a few reasons I'm skeptical. For one they have an equally spotty reputation for arbitrary editorial policy while claiming to be completely agnostic. And secondly there have been a few stories about their distressed fiscal situation. They spent a load of VC money from the zero interest era on prominent writers. Far more than they'd bring in as revenue in the hopes they'd juice the brand. Classic strategy of se…

Honestly, my confidence in the Fediverse is in part because it has no business strategy. The tooling behind it is at the moment pretty much universally AGPL (a license which I don't think is very good but it seems to keep away big businesses). It probably won't reach mass-appeal outside of gradually amassing tech nerds, but at the same time... maybe that's for the better?

I dunno, I think a lot of the enshittification[0] of social media companies comes in part because of their business strategies. VCs demand eternal growth or an eventual buyout. Fedi doesn't have that incentive. The worst that can happen to it is what happened to e-mail, where you get a few nebulously large providers but it's still more than possible (although with e-mail, rather aggravating due to an outdated tech stack that we've bolted a bunch of asterisks onto to try and make it more suited for general use) to live outside that bubble and interact with that big provider bubble anyway.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

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Post by LightBug1 »

rcarr wrote: post #132
linuxftw wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was no mass exodus. The sports and celebrity people are still on twitter. Nobody cares about rando journalists and techies, who are a vanishingly small part of the platform.

Hard disagree with this. The majority don’t care about twitter, the only people who absolutely adore it are journalists and techies which is why it was such a big deal in the news and on forums and everyone in the real world just went about their business. The celebrities are only there for marketing and connecting with the journalists.

>>×The majority don’t care about twitter

Exactly. Exactly.

Good luck to Substack, though. I'm rooting for them in this scenario.

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

rcarr wrote: post #132
linuxftw wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was no mass exodus. The sports and celebrity people are still on twitter. Nobody cares about rando journalists and techies, who are a vanishingly small part of the platform.

Hard disagree with this. The majority don’t care about twitter, the only people who absolutely adore it are journalists and techies which is why it was such a big deal in the news and on forums and everyone in the real world just went about their business. The celebrities are only there for marketing and connecting with the journalists.

I follow mostly techies, very few went to mastodon, and among them were none of the ones I cared about.

Seems like the people doing the most things in my field have no time for drama and are busy doing stuff, while the ones that actually accomplish little have the time and energy for this.

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