Wife recommended I get a Substack

Jesus Christ. That was the shortest amount of time I’ve ever been part of a social media site. It was overwhelming & everything was locked behind a subscription to separate accounts. So I couldn’t take part in many chats. I want to be an informed citizen but that place seemed like the devil himself. Additionally I got like 20 emails from everyone I followed. It was constantly pushing notifications about things I couldn’t participate in because I wasn’t a paying member. I’ll stick to mastodon.

TLDR. I tried to get the news & such off Substack & then deleted Substack.

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9point6@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

SubStack is a nazi bar

Friends don't let friends use it

nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one · 3 pts · 1y

I'll look into it!

morrowind@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Substack started as a newsletter site, so there's still no way to sub to anyone without being emailed everything they post

HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Sounds a lot like hot garbage to me.

Turbonics@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y

Dropsite and Zete have good Substack news. But the lower barrier to entry makes it possible foe everyone to publish hot garbage.

jet@hackertalks.com · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I looked into it, but I don't want to get $2 / $5 for every blogger I want to read about.

Mac@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 1y

Lots of them have free tiers.

I follow a few writers for free and read their articles in my email.