I do not fault the people who are staying on Substack with an understanding that we live in an imperfect world and it is too complicated to draw simplistic lines (as some constantly wish to do).
My main thing is: take your time to make the decision. I will continue to follow your free Substack here, and I value your newsletter.
This stinks. It really does. The email that tinyletter was closing came and I had about 20 minutes to think, "well, I guess I could move all that stuff to Substack?" and then Substack was like "but the nazis are making us money and you're not, so how dare you threaten free speech like this."
so I don't want to move all that stuff to Substack. Which means I have to cough up hundreds of dollars a year to occasionally send an apologetic email promising to write more often.
If your list is under 1000 members, Mailerlite has a free program--I signed up for that. Yeah, I was in the same situation with TinyLetter and was thinking about moving it to Substack...um, no. Still posting my essays on Substack but that is after they're posted to my WordPress blog and my Dreamwidth.
Ok, but leaving substack wouldn''t really be leaving if for Nazi's because that who this site was founded for. It was made for reactionaries that were tiered by being pushed away from other sites, then they started trowing money around to buy people to launder their reputation while claiming letting people say whatever they wanted was about standing up for free-speech, including anti-vaxxers, TERFS & alt-right.
So no, of course they were never going to try to get rid of these people, it who this site was made for.
And, to be fair, it's not just you; around two years ago ND Stevensons & his wife were also convinced to start posting here, and people were asking how ND was going to square posting autobio comics about his gender, sexuality & identity alongside viciously transphobic posters, and his response was that those sorts of articles wouldn't be advertised in his space, and some will-to-power nonsense about trying to push them away.
Needless to say, it didn't work and you can find his comics about being trans right alongside hateful & destructive articles by alt-righters and people posting about the 'trans problem'.
I moved my author newsletter to Mailerlite...under 1000 but over 500. That was my biggest concern. The blog/essays? Well, I've been posting to my hosted WordPress blog and Dreamwidth as well, so it's just a change of which link gets used to promote the post on social media--and I chose the one to my own site instead of Substack. So any traffic from me is internal, not external.
I do not fault the people who are staying on Substack with an understanding that we live in an imperfect world and it is too complicated to draw simplistic lines (as some constantly wish to do).
My main thing is: take your time to make the decision. I will continue to follow your free Substack here, and I value your newsletter.
This stinks. It really does. The email that tinyletter was closing came and I had about 20 minutes to think, "well, I guess I could move all that stuff to Substack?" and then Substack was like "but the nazis are making us money and you're not, so how dare you threaten free speech like this."
so I don't want to move all that stuff to Substack. Which means I have to cough up hundreds of dollars a year to occasionally send an apologetic email promising to write more often.
The internet increasingly just feels like a giant hole of We Can't Have Nice Things.
If your list is under 1000 members, Mailerlite has a free program--I signed up for that. Yeah, I was in the same situation with TinyLetter and was thinking about moving it to Substack...um, no. Still posting my essays on Substack but that is after they're posted to my WordPress blog and my Dreamwidth.
it's 1024 members.
I bet a bunch of those don't open my emails or whatever but I'm still screwed.
Oh yikes. Yeah, if the cutoff had been 500 I would have been screwed.
Ok, but leaving substack wouldn''t really be leaving if for Nazi's because that who this site was founded for. It was made for reactionaries that were tiered by being pushed away from other sites, then they started trowing money around to buy people to launder their reputation while claiming letting people say whatever they wanted was about standing up for free-speech, including anti-vaxxers, TERFS & alt-right.
So no, of course they were never going to try to get rid of these people, it who this site was made for.
And, to be fair, it's not just you; around two years ago ND Stevensons & his wife were also convinced to start posting here, and people were asking how ND was going to square posting autobio comics about his gender, sexuality & identity alongside viciously transphobic posters, and his response was that those sorts of articles wouldn't be advertised in his space, and some will-to-power nonsense about trying to push them away.
Needless to say, it didn't work and you can find his comics about being trans right alongside hateful & destructive articles by alt-righters and people posting about the 'trans problem'.
I moved my author newsletter to Mailerlite...under 1000 but over 500. That was my biggest concern. The blog/essays? Well, I've been posting to my hosted WordPress blog and Dreamwidth as well, so it's just a change of which link gets used to promote the post on social media--and I chose the one to my own site instead of Substack. So any traffic from me is internal, not external.