Substack Was a Ticking Time Bomb | The platform seeded its own content-moderation crisis::The platform seeded its own content-moderation crisis.

  • theluddite@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    When the writer Ryan Broderick joined Substack in 2020, it felt, he told me, like an “oasis.” The email-newsletter platform gave him a direct line to his readers.

    Everyone is going to be so pumped when they learn about websites. The media has reported on substack this way since they began and it’s so fucking stupid. It’s a website with an email list as a service. Substack is nothing.

    • 4am@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      The media loves shit like this because they don’t want media to be a passive choice. They want to feed it to you. They want to push it deep into your brain. They want flyers, they want certified mail, they want propaganda. Because it is profitable.

      Websites are easy to leave, ignore, or forget. They’d have to work for your attention.

      Email just shows up.