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Justin Ling's avatar

Oh, and what makes Twitter different is that the leadership is trying to encourage this absolute bullshit and is using its mechanics to do so. Substack, as you note, doesn't.

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Roy Brander's avatar

Thanks! Here's where a Mastodon activist criticized SS, but also had only nice words for me when I said I'm not leaving yet:

https://urbanists.social/@angiebaby@mas.to/111622171633593631

I stressed that Substack is also unlike X in that if I go to "bugeyedandshameless.com" or "volts.com", I see only the author's content, not even thumbnail ads for any other material. By only subscribing from human recommendations, and then going to the substack-powered individual blogs, you can avoid "substack", as such, entirely. Not possible with, umm....ANY other social media??

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