I have been inundated with, what I call, highly inappropriate Substacks in my feed. I spend more time reporting, muting, blocking and hiding, than actually reading any new Substack authors that align with my subscriptions or whom I follow. Moreover, you can’t get to the home page any longer if you do click on articles of interest. It’s a russian doll rabbit hole and extremely annoying.
As for free speech. Substack is not a governmental entity. It’s a private company and has no obligation to platform the swill found on nazi/fascist friendly media. Imho, there are too many substacks that are vile, paranoid fever dreams of qanon, tangerine tito, maybelline vance, white nationalists, russian propaganda, etc. If Substack’s algorithm are promoting writers who have the most engagement through comments, notes or posts, instead of content, they will have a hate filled, bigoted, racist, misogynistic platform, as the rest of us abandoned the platform altogether and look for another site to use.
Substacks AI is never wrong! Much....too often...ok, is frequently wrong. It reminds me of Marvel's The Age of Ultron where it develops its own thinking and disconnects you if you disagree with it.
I’m signing. I came to Substack because Wonkette did, and I’ve appreciated seeing different blogs and news sources here, but recently it’s gotten harder and harder to use it as I liked, just reading by author. It’s all cluttered up with recommendations and rarely are they something I want to see. To make it easier, I “subscribe” to the good ones but then I have too many subscriptions to read effectively by author. While I used to get a nice selection of my subscriptions on my main mobile page, now I get all kinds of extras (no Nazis yet) and miss out on my preferred stacks (like yours.)
I rarely used Facebook back when it was connecting with friends and no ads, but it is similarly unusable now because I get all sorts of advertising content and only a few of my friends in my feed. It is effectively useless and I only use it to sell things now and to keep up with the PTA and my other small business friends.
I have followed a few authors off Substack but it’s definitely harder to keep up with them because it requires remembering to look. Oh, how I miss the good Feed Readers.
Facebook died in me when I saw a meme appealing to sympathy for elderly WWII veterans at the end of their lives (something I stan completely). On the elderly soldiers’ (big strong men with tears in their eyes) uniforms were patches with Cyrillic lettering. Of hundreds of responses, I was the first to bring that up.
Jonathan Katz bailed for good reasons...now posting independently, he wanted NO truck with a platform that if not welcomed Nazi writers, certainly indulged and excused them coz 1st Amendment...hope you don't go that route.
So that's how I've ended up with Jacob Rees-Mogg's substack in my recommendations.
There is no way I would ever subscribe to, or recommend that haunted-Russian-doll-masquerading-as-a-sexually-repressed-Victorian-consumption-sufferer's substack to anyone.
I saw his original post and was looking forward to his explanation of the global elite and why he ain't one. Unfortunately it's subscriber only, so I'll never know. Presumably the global elite's too déclassé.
From what I've seen, he seems to be writing some form of history. I've seen a little of his previous writing on the subject, it's very much the kind of historical thinking that was prevalent during the Victorian era until around the 1970s - lots of "yay empire", "Rule Britania" and general patriarchal claptrap.
I have been inundated with, what I call, highly inappropriate Substacks in my feed. I spend more time reporting, muting, blocking and hiding, than actually reading any new Substack authors that align with my subscriptions or whom I follow. Moreover, you can’t get to the home page any longer if you do click on articles of interest. It’s a russian doll rabbit hole and extremely annoying.
As for free speech. Substack is not a governmental entity. It’s a private company and has no obligation to platform the swill found on nazi/fascist friendly media. Imho, there are too many substacks that are vile, paranoid fever dreams of qanon, tangerine tito, maybelline vance, white nationalists, russian propaganda, etc. If Substack’s algorithm are promoting writers who have the most engagement through comments, notes or posts, instead of content, they will have a hate filled, bigoted, racist, misogynistic platform, as the rest of us abandoned the platform altogether and look for another site to use.
Signed.
I’ve always considered you something of a seer. Consider me signed.
So much stuff screwed up. Grr.
Substacks AI is never wrong! Much....too often...ok, is frequently wrong. It reminds me of Marvel's The Age of Ultron where it develops its own thinking and disconnects you if you disagree with it.
Am I signing this....???I.???? Hope so, no nazis.
Signed.
I’m signing. I came to Substack because Wonkette did, and I’ve appreciated seeing different blogs and news sources here, but recently it’s gotten harder and harder to use it as I liked, just reading by author. It’s all cluttered up with recommendations and rarely are they something I want to see. To make it easier, I “subscribe” to the good ones but then I have too many subscriptions to read effectively by author. While I used to get a nice selection of my subscriptions on my main mobile page, now I get all kinds of extras (no Nazis yet) and miss out on my preferred stacks (like yours.)
I rarely used Facebook back when it was connecting with friends and no ads, but it is similarly unusable now because I get all sorts of advertising content and only a few of my friends in my feed. It is effectively useless and I only use it to sell things now and to keep up with the PTA and my other small business friends.
I have followed a few authors off Substack but it’s definitely harder to keep up with them because it requires remembering to look. Oh, how I miss the good Feed Readers.
Facebook died in me when I saw a meme appealing to sympathy for elderly WWII veterans at the end of their lives (something I stan completely). On the elderly soldiers’ (big strong men with tears in their eyes) uniforms were patches with Cyrillic lettering. Of hundreds of responses, I was the first to bring that up.
Jonathan Katz bailed for good reasons...now posting independently, he wanted NO truck with a platform that if not welcomed Nazi writers, certainly indulged and excused them coz 1st Amendment...hope you don't go that route.
So that's how I've ended up with Jacob Rees-Mogg's substack in my recommendations.
There is no way I would ever subscribe to, or recommend that haunted-Russian-doll-masquerading-as-a-sexually-repressed-Victorian-consumption-sufferer's substack to anyone.
I saw his original post and was looking forward to his explanation of the global elite and why he ain't one. Unfortunately it's subscriber only, so I'll never know. Presumably the global elite's too déclassé.
From what I've seen, he seems to be writing some form of history. I've seen a little of his previous writing on the subject, it's very much the kind of historical thinking that was prevalent during the Victorian era until around the 1970s - lots of "yay empire", "Rule Britania" and general patriarchal claptrap.
Agreed! Give the authors control!
I am a dinosaur. How/ where do I sign?
I am constantly turning to Urban Dictionary to look up abbreviations like PAB or POS😁
I dunno, I feel like I was born during the Jurassic sometimes, at 76.
You just did.
Absolutely. The last thing I need is Nazis on people’s timelines because they read my stuff.
Consider it signed.
Signing below.
Fuck Nazis and Nazi sympathizers. Zero exceptions.
Signed. Restacking now