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Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by jimsimmons »

Cardinal7167 wrote: post #141
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.

You should look up global search volumes and Google share of it. There’s no dent

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by [deleted] »

WheatMillington wrote: post #192
phtrivier wrote: post #169

You can now start a timer until they announce that they're going to algorithmically organize the feed of "Notes" because "chronological order is too hard to follow." Then, they will let an Algo organize the feed of articles. Then the ads - no, wait, the "sponsored post - will start popping in, etc, etc... Maybe they won't. I enjoy substack as it is today, and maybe they'll pull it off. But I can't help seing this as…

Catastrophising about a future that doesn't exist based on pure speculation. You're already upset about this product on the basis that bad things MIGHT happen in the future. Live in the moment, this type of chronic negativity is unhealthy.

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Post by LegitShady »

marcinzm wrote: post #43
LegitShady wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

none of this has anything to do with substack making a business plan off of sucking down twitter data and advertising on twitter. There's no reason twitter has to put up with that.

Twitter's freedom to do something doesn't prevent other people's freedom to react to those actions. They can block whomever they want and I can say it highlights how fragile they view their own business position as.

if you want to believe not directly contributing to competition that tried to take your data and advertise on your platform is fragile, thats of course your choice. To everyone else its just common sense. the fragility is the business plan that needs to steal its competitors data and space for advertising to have a hope in succeeding.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by lapetitejort »

paxys wrote: post #96
Confiks wrote: post #66

Compare the two homepages without cookies [1][2]. The rounded buttons in orange instead of Twitter-blue. The footer nagbar. The similar navigation menu. Following the whole banning-saga my impression was that Notes was a genuine extension of the Substack platform, but it being a frontend clone explains why such a tantrum was thrown by Musk. [1] https://twitter.com/ [2] https://substack.com/notes

Seems just like one of the many cookie-cutter Twitter clones out there. I don't think people would even be talking about Substack Notes had it not been for Musk's tantrum.

Competitors are refining their Musk Tantrum Inducer algorithms to better market their products.

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Post by [deleted] »

DanHulton wrote: post #204

...and his actions. He's not just a nebulous political creature, thinking thoughts but not acting upon them. He's actually _doing_ things that people might rightly not agree with. Not to mention, a good chunk of those actual actions have resulted in Twitter being a legitimately worse place for a great number of people to spend time on/engage with, and thus they... leave.

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Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by 13years »

So, I gave it a try today. Was hopeful, because on Twitter all my posts go essentially into the void.

However, Substack Notes seems to have no method for discovery. They add some random larger accounts to my feed.

You can't search Notes to find people posting content in order to find others potentially interested in similar content.

So, unless you already have a large following, seems like posting into another void. People are reluctant to follow you as well, since you must subscribe to the persons newsletter, they are the same action.

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Post by MikusR »

phtrivier wrote: post #169

You can now start a timer until they announce that they're going to algorithmically organize the feed of "Notes" because "chronological order is too hard to follow." Then, they will let an Algo organize the feed of articles. Then the ads - no, wait, the "sponsored post - will start popping in, etc, etc... Maybe they won't. I enjoy substack as it is today, and maybe they'll pull it off. But I can't help seing this as…

Can you explain what you enjoy about substack? It just seems to be Forbes contributors with even less vetting.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by deanCommie »

rosywoozlechan wrote: post #214
DanHulton wrote: post #204

...and his actions. He's not just a nebulous political creature, thinking thoughts but not acting upon them. He's actually _doing_ things that people might rightly not agree with. Not to mention, a good chunk of those actual actions have resulted in Twitter being a legitimately worse place for a great number of people to spend time on/engage with, and thus they... leave.

Whenever someone criticizes Elon Musk I just remember he sent a car he drove, a car built by a company he leads, into heliocentric orbit using his own rockets via his own space launching tech company. I don't know how you can talk about the guy without that context. People talk about him like he's just another jerk on Twitter. His car is in space. He's also the wealthiest person on the planet. And his car is in space…

Whenever someone criticizes Elon Musk, it's not about his abilities to launch a car into space.

In fact most of us would much prefer that he focused on his space launching abilities and electric-car making abilities (with the usual caveat that it's not clear how much of both are based on his contributions vs others, but I'm willing to give some benefit of doubt).

He doesn't know anything about tunneling (boring company), mass transit (hyper loop), software (twitter), or social platforms (twitter). And those are the areas he gets criticized for.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

AlbertCory wrote: post #218
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same. Most of my readers come from HN, reddit or substack itself. Now it's mostly Python so it makes sense a tech oriented medias will be reading more about it. Still, the ban on substack by twitter means that, while a #python tweet gets some view, the same with an article to substack tanks bit time.

I'm curious how you're dealing with Reddit: some of the mods don't even respond to a direct message; they just say "read the guidelines." And then their auto-mod deletes your post.

I have a very old account that has been mostly posting quality content. I also take great care of writing content that I wish I would I read myself.

So when I post it, it's congruent.

Basically, either you find a way to cheat, or you climb the ladder. I'm terrible at cheating.

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