Looks like a signal from Twitter acknowledging the threat that is Substack.
If Substack could integrate a reverse chron timeline they could go after a nice chunk of TAM.
I'm still banned on Twitter because I refuse to delete the tweets where I called Brian Stelter a fat fucking baby moron and told Oscar de Lahoya Piers Morgan Savid Javid et al to suck my dick (very bad taste but it was the time of mandating vaccines so everyone got the smoke)
Go research Mao's 100-flowers campaign. Basically: draw out opponents with a false free speech "reprieve" so they can be identified as die-hards and targeted more precisely in the next round.
I’m still worried they’ll come for substack, too. Mark steyn has it right, he’s got his own site and payment processor all set up, is reliant on no so-called savior of free speech to keep his word, because he’s just seen people get burned so often before. See Canadian trucker fundraisers, etc.
But in the meantime here, how big pharma corrupts even The Masters…
Despite Musk's superficial rhetoric about free speech "absolutism", he has warned that he planned to limit "freedom of reach" and that explicitly included linking to other social media. It is no surprise that Substack would be near the top of his list.
The sooner we realize we need to move away from twitter and start working towards populating decentralized, censorship-resistant, non corporate alternatives, the better.
Quite the brief honeymoon being back on Twitter...I have never been on FB, Twitter or any social media other than Substack & I’m really happy to follow you, Eugippius & others here
Yeah, funny how those ex-FBI and CIA folks working for Twitter are all still there. They let Musk buy the nameplate on the front of the building, but the deep state remains at the controls.
Give them credit, these people know their business. It's easier to monitor one platform than 3, and 3 is easier than 20. They engineered a migration of traffic back to Twitter from startups like Truth Social, and now that they have achieved it, they are back to full scale censorship.
Funny also that the 'Fauci Files,' emails from America's Doctor to Twitter demanding action on "disinformation," a part of the Twitter Files that Musk himself has promoted, still haven't found their way to sunlight.
I'm surprised Substack is so popular amongst the censored crowd. It's hosted on AWS (Amazon Web Services), meaning Amazon can literally shut it down anytime.
So as I been saying, a guy whose business model is EVs and space littering...
A tool is only as good as its usefulness. Twitter was extremely useful to me in leading me to Substack.
No doubt there's gonna be a showdown and I've already been extremely leery of getting involved with Stripe, and you guys needing/wanting the income stream--we'll have to see, won't we, how big Substack's stones are gonna be when the showdown comes, because it's coming. No way it won't be.
Samizdat is only tolerable when it ain't the above-ground daily news.
My own little view is just ignore Twitter now. It's solidly cemented; all them shrieking blue checks who wuz gonna decamp to Mastodon found that Twitter's too convenient and big to leave.
I'd say the crucial strategy now is to make Substack too big to fail. And to hope Substack's owners have the brains and foresight to ensure they can't be squeezed by a payment processor that might get the willies down the road.
I go on Twitter every day but mostly just read, like, and occasionally retweet (I almost never tweet). I've noticed a lot of changes to my feed lately and I don't find much of interest. Initially when Elon took over I was seeing lots of good content and I was really interested when he let the journalists have access to the Twitter files but the outrage seemed to fizzle out and now it just feels like a censored wasteland like mainstream media.
When substack added / tested the chat feature I knew instantly they were going to be the new better twitter. I was so happy espeically because the chat was directly with the author and followers not just random bar room chat. Then when they came out with the investment opportunity I am all in!! Hope this goes well for substack. IMO the best platform out there.
with the show trial of DJT going on it seems they're not so subtly trying to attack and censor through any channels they can without triggering a "twitter files" response from society. I will say though, it is shocking how many liberals are NOT concerned with what is happening. History repeats itself
I also noticed “weird” new censorship or “content moderation” on GETTR. Giving me a warning ⚠️ before content from Dr McCullough. 🤡🤡
the twitter files were handled by substack celebrities. there’s that.
Looks like a signal from Twitter acknowledging the threat that is Substack.
If Substack could integrate a reverse chron timeline they could go after a nice chunk of TAM.
I'm still banned on Twitter because I refuse to delete the tweets where I called Brian Stelter a fat fucking baby moron and told Oscar de Lahoya Piers Morgan Savid Javid et al to suck my dick (very bad taste but it was the time of mandating vaccines so everyone got the smoke)
Go research Mao's 100-flowers campaign. Basically: draw out opponents with a false free speech "reprieve" so they can be identified as die-hards and targeted more precisely in the next round.
If Elon has declared war on Substack. He will not win
I'm thinking the culprit is a stealth Twitter employee who should have been fired in the first round.
I’m still worried they’ll come for substack, too. Mark steyn has it right, he’s got his own site and payment processor all set up, is reliant on no so-called savior of free speech to keep his word, because he’s just seen people get burned so often before. See Canadian trucker fundraisers, etc.
But in the meantime here, how big pharma corrupts even The Masters…
https://gaty.substack.com/p/fore-the-big-golf-controversy-and
Despite Musk's superficial rhetoric about free speech "absolutism", he has warned that he planned to limit "freedom of reach" and that explicitly included linking to other social media. It is no surprise that Substack would be near the top of his list.
The sooner we realize we need to move away from twitter and start working towards populating decentralized, censorship-resistant, non corporate alternatives, the better.
Quite the brief honeymoon being back on Twitter...I have never been on FB, Twitter or any social media other than Substack & I’m really happy to follow you, Eugippius & others here
Yeah, funny how those ex-FBI and CIA folks working for Twitter are all still there. They let Musk buy the nameplate on the front of the building, but the deep state remains at the controls.
Give them credit, these people know their business. It's easier to monitor one platform than 3, and 3 is easier than 20. They engineered a migration of traffic back to Twitter from startups like Truth Social, and now that they have achieved it, they are back to full scale censorship.
Funny also that the 'Fauci Files,' emails from America's Doctor to Twitter demanding action on "disinformation," a part of the Twitter Files that Musk himself has promoted, still haven't found their way to sunlight.
Must be a wacky coincidence.
I'm surprised Substack is so popular amongst the censored crowd. It's hosted on AWS (Amazon Web Services), meaning Amazon can literally shut it down anytime.
So as I been saying, a guy whose business model is EVs and space littering...
A tool is only as good as its usefulness. Twitter was extremely useful to me in leading me to Substack.
No doubt there's gonna be a showdown and I've already been extremely leery of getting involved with Stripe, and you guys needing/wanting the income stream--we'll have to see, won't we, how big Substack's stones are gonna be when the showdown comes, because it's coming. No way it won't be.
Samizdat is only tolerable when it ain't the above-ground daily news.
My own little view is just ignore Twitter now. It's solidly cemented; all them shrieking blue checks who wuz gonna decamp to Mastodon found that Twitter's too convenient and big to leave.
I'd say the crucial strategy now is to make Substack too big to fail. And to hope Substack's owners have the brains and foresight to ensure they can't be squeezed by a payment processor that might get the willies down the road.
I go on Twitter every day but mostly just read, like, and occasionally retweet (I almost never tweet). I've noticed a lot of changes to my feed lately and I don't find much of interest. Initially when Elon took over I was seeing lots of good content and I was really interested when he let the journalists have access to the Twitter files but the outrage seemed to fizzle out and now it just feels like a censored wasteland like mainstream media.
When substack added / tested the chat feature I knew instantly they were going to be the new better twitter. I was so happy espeically because the chat was directly with the author and followers not just random bar room chat. Then when they came out with the investment opportunity I am all in!! Hope this goes well for substack. IMO the best platform out there.
with the show trial of DJT going on it seems they're not so subtly trying to attack and censor through any channels they can without triggering a "twitter files" response from society. I will say though, it is shocking how many liberals are NOT concerned with what is happening. History repeats itself
im growing to hate twatter, according to twatter 99% of the population must be trans
all i see is trans bullshit. endless tweets about some escaped lunatic called dylan.
i live in a town with a disproportionate number of gay people yet ive still only met 2 trans people in my entire life.