David M. Perry: I will pay to subscribe, for one year at least, to any pro writer I follow here or who leaves substack for a site that bans Nazis. I hope other readers will do likewise.

I will pay to subscribe, for one year at least, to any pro writer I follow here or who leaves substack for a site that bans Nazis. I hope other readers will do likewise.

i will be figuring out how to migrate my free newsletter, even if that comes with costs (substack comes with costs too, they are just folded into their VC funding so it's free to me. but at societal costs).

FWIW, here's a step-by-step of how I used Blogger and Mailchimp to build a free blog/newsletter (fewer than 2,000 subs). docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Alright. I’m catching up. Had no idea this was a thing. But then I remembered we have our own local bully with a substack and she just helped flip our council from blue to whatever effed up color libertarian is. I think it could be green for money.

Wordpress is supposed to have all these features including subscriptions

i use buttondown very happily for my free project newsletter and i know they have lots of migration tools

how many subscribers if I may ask?

mine is small and new so about 100, but i know they host really large ones incl ones migrated from substack - they're on bsky explaining their migration and newsletter tools to lots of newly interested parties

Right there are just costs.

true

Check out groups. Io

That is eye oh

(to clarify: bsky.app/profile/loll...)

well ... I meant to say "who I follow here or on substack who leaves ..." :) Fortunately bluesky isn't legally binding the way twitter posts are.

I'm working on moving to Buttondown. I should have gone a long time ago...

Yeah. When you do I will become a paid subscriber

I can budget for this. Paid subscription, for at least one year, to a pro writer who needs their newsletter income, that I follow here who leaves substack for a site that bans nazis.

It feels like a reasonable thing to budget for.

I restarted my Ko-Fi & Patreon yesterday. Until I find another newsletter option, I’m just going to go with these, and provide both writing and art. Links here. linktr.ee/jendiagammon

Jendia Gammon | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktreelinktr.ee Author. Artist. Pronounced jen-DEE-a. Repped by Liverpool Literary Agency.

I'm knee-deep in book writing, but as soon as I finish my manuscript next summer, I'm migrating mine.

I was a 2020 Substack fellow and probably (definitely) wouldn't be an independent writer without that incentive to go solo, but fuck Substack

I hoped they would get better instead of worse. I was wrong.

same

I was considering a substack but not now. I'm not too impressed with WordPress and haven't written for sometime. I have a locked WP that I keep my MLIS project on and an open one that I've only used a few time.

I haven't had a chance to wade into the drama. Is there a primer somewhere so I don't have to spend an hour chasing comments? Is it beyond a free-speech issue?

there is no free speech issue when it comes to a private corporation making choices about who it does and doesn't want to a) let on their platform and b) monetize and c) actively promote. It's just choices.

That's fine. And it's everyone's choice to go somewhere else. No one is compelled to use their platform. My point is the most consistent and defensible position to take is 1A. And not Musk's bullshit version, which is just censorship by a different name.

Applying 1A to a social media platform is bullshit. But let’s just go our separate ways.

Have a good night.

Short-short version - Substack bans all "adult content" but refuses to ban Nazis.

And actively promotes it

I’m not a pro-writer but I have a twitch stream and I talk a lot. does that count? the talking is sometimes about where and how the far right is taking over communities, but also sometimes about how capitalism and/or American healthcare sucks, or why the video game I’m playing is super cool.

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