Yea well I learned C++ in just 21 days
goddamnit this got me!
I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months
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Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months
#22Adult humor at one’s own expense or the expense of “public figures” was celebrated, not cancelled, in the halcyon days of yore like 5 years ago. This used to fly: https://jesuschristsiliconvalley-blog.tumblr.com/ and the world was better for it. Bravo, Swiftian sarcastic satirical Sir or Madame.
Taylor Swift writes satire? (Ducks object thrown at my head)
There's Swift on Security, and cybersec is half satire anyway.
Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months
#23There’s a bit of sour truth in this. I don’t think it’s Substack’s fault, but the era in which quality content could grow an audience through organic means is over. TikTok is more of a symptom than a driver, but the Internet in this Big Platform, enshittifed era is just as much a wasteland as TV was in the “idiot box” age. Ten years ago, if the powers that be wanted to put you to the big sleep, they had to MOC you. N…
MOC?
Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months
#24There’s a bit of sour truth in this. I don’t think it’s Substack’s fault, but the era in which quality content could grow an audience through organic means is over. TikTok is more of a symptom than a driver, but the Internet in this Big Platform, enshittifed era is just as much a wasteland as TV was in the “idiot box” age. Ten years ago, if the powers that be wanted to put you to the big sleep, they had to MOC you. N…
MOC?
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Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months
#25I never understood the appeal in platforms like Medium and Substack.
But then I am a pathological contrarian and have an allergic reaction to anything any kind of advertising signal to buy, force you to have an account for consultation, subscribe, send like and whatever and tend to avoid most of these platforms. You are free to add an rss xml file to your website though.
Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months
#26Well he has 900 now, time for the lambo.
11 months of posting 3 articles per month: 12 $ (subscribers)
being mentioned on HN: priceless
Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months
#27I never understood the appeal in platforms like Medium and Substack. But then I am a pathological contrarian and have an allergic reaction to anything any kind of advertising signal to buy, force you to have an account for consultation, subscribe, send like and whatever and tend to avoid most of these platforms. You are free to add an rss xml file to your website though.
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Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months
#28Adult humor at one’s own expense or the expense of “public figures” was celebrated, not cancelled, in the halcyon days of yore like 5 years ago. This used to fly: https://jesuschristsiliconvalley-blog.tumblr.com/ and the world was better for it. Bravo, Swiftian sarcastic satirical Sir or Madame.
Taylor Swift writes satire? (Ducks object thrown at my head)
Why not? Britney Spears has a site about semiconductor physics https://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months
#29To add to the humor of this post, the author with an engineering background miscalculates 451 - 439 to be 11 new subscribers.
Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months
#30I never understood the appeal in platforms like Medium and Substack. But then I am a pathological contrarian and have an allergic reaction to anything any kind of advertising signal to buy, force you to have an account for consultation, subscribe, send like and whatever and tend to avoid most of these platforms. You are free to add an rss xml file to your website though.
For me its ok. It looks like this: I found the author that Im imterested in and copied blog url into my RSS reader. Works for Substack.