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0 pointsbediger40003y ago0 comments

Medium worked for a while. The question is will Substack suffer the fate?

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sascha_sl3y ago· 1 in thread

It's a different time. Substack has quite a big creator audience of outrage merchants that monetize writing things you're (allegedly) "not allowed to say", to an audience that happily pays to keep their favourites engaged in the shovelware equivalent of culture war opinion pieces.

I'm sure you can think of one no matter your political affiliation.

bediger4000OP3y ago

That sounds like a strategy that will work for a time. I remember 7-8 years ago, when Medium was putatively accruing all the good content, and then gradually paywalling it. Subscriptions don't seem to work for most sites, so I'm anticipating Substack undergoing a slow death like Medium.

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