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Family Meal @thisfamilymeal
Reported 2021-04-11 21:42:04
Starting to feel more and more like US food Substack should just be a solid bundle (yes, maybe magazine)... I'll round up restaurant news. Then there's food tech, cookbooks, food history, cooking, and some bomb thrower essays here and there. Issue 1 will be "Ramen." Investors, DM
Zach Everson @Z_Everson
Reported 2021-04-11 21:34:36
@eisingerj While news is broken on Substack, it's rarely mentioned in articles about the company (I hadn't made that connection until I read your tweet).
Ralph De La Rosa, LCSW (he/they) @ralphdelarosa_
Reported 2021-04-11 21:27:50
@EmilyGould Just chiming in to make sure substack isn't a new type of sandwich bc I'm def not turning that down if it is
Dustin @doosteroo
Reported 2021-04-11 21:17:58
@ryangrim It's inarguably an incentive! People don't have a problem with the concept of advances, they have a problem with *who* Substack is incentivizing to join, a problem that you'll note email providers don't have because Gmail doesn't go out and try to pay Jesse Singal to make an acct
grant @grantbelden
Reported 2021-04-11 21:17:10
@djkgamc @ryangrim @benyt I think we’re talking past each other a little but in agreement - substack is “a menace” to newspapers etc but not an actual problem for our society
Cowboy & The Goof @caylenb
Reported 2021-04-11 21:14:44
@Bro_Pair ok that dude is clearly a dumb*** but also that line about “actually, email is Very Difficult and Super Expensive” is the most insane **** I have heard in defense of substack. it is a solved problem, like since the Dawn of Email this issue was on lock
Landlady @Landladyband
Reported 2021-04-11 21:09:50
@ZacharyLipez Honestly my biggest issue with substack was how you weren't allowed to swear, not enough folks are talking about that
Michael R. Strain @MichaelRStrain
Reported 2021-04-11 21:03:04
"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.”
Another excellent issue of @JimPethokoukis's Substack has just been published. https://t.co/b3qRyiWbHZ
Just Following Orders @JerryStillman
Reported 2021-04-11 21:00:09
@willjfang @nyttypos @petstarr @jesseltaylor @benyt It is smart to turn down a move from the NYT to substack not only because of the editing the NYT provides but also, in nyttypos' opinion, because of the additional editing nyttypos provides
Be Scofield @bescofield
Reported 2021-04-11 20:59:15
@ggreenwald @benyt @SubstackInc @cjgbest @jairajs89 @hamishmckenzie I was most read blogger for Tikkun Magazine, then founded pioneering online mag that bridged yoga/race/trans issues, now am prominent cult reporter having shut down largest cults in the world. Repped by UTA agent.
mrsodysseus999 @mrsodysseus999
Reported 2021-04-11 20:56:56
Here’s some of the best darn news I’ve heard in a long time. Nationwide kindergarten enrollment in America’s government schools was down 16 percent during the 2020-21 academic year . . .
To learn why, consider joining the Redneck Intellectual Substack.
https://t.co/hFVA1o5Msc
Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere
Reported 2021-04-11 20:39:21
Looks like Arc didn't make the cut for this NYT Substack write-up. That's fine. 150 years from now, the Times will issue a big fat correction saying, "We're sorry to Arc for not including them and bow in abject shame before their omnipresent rule."
https://t.co/EDWbvBflli
Michelangelo @MikemorselMorse
Reported 2021-04-11 20:33:34
the problem has never been substack itself. You’re all reading this wrong. The problem is slimy libertarian ***hats, and I feel like you already know this
Tracy 🍑 @tracybrisson
Reported 2021-04-11 20:28:39
I pay for 3 Substacks currently. I can’t see myself renewing 2. It is ... too involved, and too fast. By the time I get to read the latest issue, the conversation in the comments has ended.
Anthony Lazarus @Sr_Lazarus
Reported 2021-04-11 20:21:30
the problem with #Substack and emailed content, at least for me, is the psychological response involved in checking email.
i see emails from writers and hustlers mixed in with those related to work and personal stuff and whatnot, and i just want to bail from all of it.
Marina Kukso @marinakukso
Reported 2021-04-11 20:15:49
@benyt fyi, the person substack inc stole their name from hates them: https://t.co/sf4NcKsGfw
The Dread Pirate Jussim @PsychRabble
Reported 2021-04-11 20:12:02
Capitalism (via Substack & similar) Solves Cancel Culture
https://t.co/IHrhAcVTRx
The Exiled Almost Always Create Their Own Alternatives
Also? You can kick, dismiss and try to shame it, but you can't really keep a good idea down.
Kat Stromquist @kstromquist
Reported 2021-04-11 19:54:06
I really enjoy some of the Substack newsletters. They remind me of the fun, voice-y writing of the earlier internet, and I like the anti-top-down-authority idea of the platform.
But at the end of the day, what I'm really willing to pay for? Hard news in a newspaper, no question.
Scott Crawford @scottcrawford
Reported 2021-04-11 19:51:46
@inthefade I enjoy it, but I support the efforts of anyone getting the **** off Substack. From there, it comes down to whether you can find a platform that's comfortable for you. (I made my website private and kitted it out to be a functional newsletter, but that won't work for everyone.)
🌀 @HipCityReg
Reported 2021-04-11 19:51:00
@web wrong abstraction layer
the problem for the NYT is Twitter, Reddit, etc.
not Substack
NYT & Substack deeply need each other, whether or not they realize it
Emily Gould @EmilyGould
Reported 2021-04-11 19:45:19
“i turned down a substack deal” is VERY much the new “i turned down twitter verification”
Typos of the New York Times @nyttypos
Reported 2021-04-11 19:42:31
@jesseltaylor @petstarr @benyt The "Smart choice" is that he "turned down an offer of an advance" from Substack because of "the editing . . . that the Times [and I, the joke is] gives" him.
Steve Skojec @SteveSkojec
Reported 2021-04-11 19:35:37
This started as a Twitter thread, and wound up as a post. My latest at my Substack on why shame is bad, guilt is transformative, and figuring out the difference.
The Problem With Shame by @SteveSkojec https://t.co/A9zVU2tGU5
Michael Broukhim @broukhim
Reported 2021-04-11 19:30:58
@nbashaw Haha, I’m just playing. I believe the adage about making $ by bundling and unbundling. Each swing of the pendulum offers opportunities for improvements. Down w the Substack movement — MSM is very rotten — and think it’s great for writers to come together in new collectives :)
Holden @Holden114
Reported 2021-04-11 19:14:30
These people haven't thought through what they'll do when the wokesters burn Substack down.
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon
Reported 2021-04-11 19:10:35
@benyt Yeah the problem with using Substack for free is that all the defaults are for paid.
George Lord @georgelordtalks
Reported 2021-04-11 18:54:56
@nytimes @benyt As a writer in the 1970s-80s I had a number of bylines to my credit, but we never had to contend with people outside of the journalism infrastructure who were spreading bad ideas and contrary opinions. Writers should know that isn’t tolerated. Shut down #substack now! Cheers.
Fred Church @TheBigFoxx
Reported 2021-04-11 18:30:31
@mattyglesias I reckon that you don’t feel that you can disagree publicly with fellow substackers(or are contractually obligated not to) because it would be easy to just say “I agreed with the letter not all their views.” But you are going to go down the dumb route I guess.
Fred Church @TheBigFoxx
Reported 2021-04-11 18:28:19
@Weedledouble It would be easy for Matt to say “I agree with what I signed but I dont agree with what all the signatories say on every subject.” But since he’s an idiot & can’t attack his fellow substackers he’s going to go down with this ship.
Abdulmojeed Kawthar @Kawthar_ola
Reported 2021-04-11 17:22:41
Read my first issue on substack👇👇
User manual https://t.co/pEJRPY01EF
Chad Taylor @Chad5ive
Reported 2021-04-11 17:17:35
5ivefooters issue 4 pg1-4 https://t.co/kVyQ3G15Mn #substack #subscribe #comics
💜💜𝔹𝔼 𝕊𝔸ℕ𝔻 ℕ𝕆𝕋 𝕆𝕀𝕃💜💜 @NickPinkerton
Reported 2021-04-11 16:04:57
The janky 'zine that I proposed to send to paid Substack subscribers some months back has grown into something considerably more sick with help from homies @TheBeaconSEA. Here is the cover of issue #1 by @thutran666, with masthead lettering by Aaron Lowell Denton. It's coming. https://t.co/blSiXeRWIu
Bridget Gordon @thaumatropia
Reported 2021-04-11 15:41:59
Hey friends, super quick thread to follow-up on my leaving Substack
https://t.co/tzu1Zjr5L5
Art Kavanagh @artkavana
Reported 2021-04-11 14:32:31
The latest issue of my Substack newsletter, Talk about books, has just gone out. It’s titled “On ‘Dover Beach’: Ian McEwan’s Saturday”.
https://t.co/JRqeSTeUNZ
Holly, elf with news (see TL) @hollymathnerd
Reported 2021-04-08 20:48:22
@carpeffingdiem Yep. I'll write an issue of my Substack on this topic pretty soon. https://t.co/MhoZuUXHrJ.
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Reported 2021-04-08 20:23:25
My LoveNote has moved to Substack! 🌷
Subscribe to my newsletter before Tax Day (4/15) & you'll find a free trial to my Onlyfans in the next issue! ↙️
https://t.co/BlERxL0sGm 🌸 https://t.co/8THfv1XW9E
minusculethoughts.substack.com @hannah_howell1
Reported 2021-04-08 20:03:17
Third jotting down.
#WritingCommunity #substack
https://t.co/bURkOxph2d
goober @sentientgrape
Reported 2021-04-08 19:44:09
@jessesingal it takes a monumentally stupid person to think this is patreon going “substack is transphobic we need to shut down those thinkers” and not “this seems like a perfect opportunity to poach substack writers.” thank god you’re that person.
Joe Cee @JoeCeeFromPA
Reported 2021-04-08 19:39:22
@NathanTankus when substack closes down, and everyone writes for ghost, what will have been accomplished?
TPS @Twolzonline
Reported 2021-04-08 18:52:20
Dear Entrepreneur
Taxi drivers yelled at Uber.
Hotels yelled at Airbnb.
Bankers yelled at Bitcoin.
Journalists yelled at Substack.
It didn’t matter. Disruption is inevitable. Focus on what is needed in society as solutions to the current problems and fix them
Beeza Geeza @beezageeza
Reported 2021-04-08 18:46:00
@DaltySog @horriblelizard Substack was always going to be targeted *no matter what*. It could have been any issue. A lot of people opposed to uncomfortable journalism (on any topic) have been waiting for folks like MT and GG to congregate in a single place to more easily attack their "brand".
fry @frygtl0s
Reported 2021-04-08 18:00:58
@pontoon_planet @NathanJRobinson @ggreenwald @NathanTankus It does make sense for substack to invest in bringing in popular journalists from a business point of view but as long as they don't discriminate on who else can join their platform I don't see the problem. Maybe if they have writers who are advocating for the use of violence.
W. Gyude Moore @gyude_moore
Reported 2021-04-08 17:11:24
A few weeks ago I wrote a substack post on a partial solution to the funding problem for African infrastructure. In this CGD note, I reduce the idea to a policy proposal for multilateral and bilateral development finance institutions.
miranda @mirandareinert
Reported 2021-04-08 17:04:20
@HendoSlice gotta say this is a weird take as i think we both know the bad thing about substack as a company that people are reacting to now (by moving platform, not shutting down their newsletters!) is not equal to what you were saying last year. super high horse attitude for no reason.
Flavored Cats @tpwk47
Reported 2021-04-08 17:03:31
@mllichti @frasermatthew @Yascha_Mounk @Patreon @JoinPersuasion @SubstackInc Do you have that opportunity if the site shuts you down?
SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst
Reported 2021-04-08 17:02:25
Dear Entrepreneur, Taxi drivers yelled at Uber.
Hotels yelled at Airbnb.
Bankers yelled at Bitcoin.
Journalists yelled at Substack.
It didn’t matter. Disruption is inevitable. Focus on what is needed in society as solutions to the current problems and fix them.
Heywood Floyd @HeywoodFloyd10
Reported 2021-04-08 15:30:16
@Yascha_Mounk @ggreenwald @Patreon @JoinPersuasion @SubstackInc The employees behind this policy probably don't have a ton of equity. If they drive their employer into the ground, it's not really their problem - like locusts, they just move on. It's a small price to pay for forcing their social/religious views on others.
Matthew Albright @malbrightLA
Reported 2021-04-08 15:08:25
@cabrasted There's a whole Big Dumb Debate on this here website about "Substack is great because editors can't hamstring my brilliance."
Obviously I am biased on this issue, lol.
Fernando Parnes @ParnesFernando
Reported 2021-04-08 15:08:05
Anyone else having a slight issue with @SubstackInc today? It keeps saying I have conflicting changes from having my draft open in another tab, but I'm certain it isn't open anywhere else.
Ramanan @Ramanan_V
Reported 2021-04-08 15:01:35
@J_MoAGoGo The US mainstream media is trying hard to bring down Substack because they don't want any challenge. So it's not like what he is doing isn't political.