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#PSA #CallToAction

If you have a newsletter (or know someone who has one) on Substack, please pass this link on: soon they won't be able to port their paid subscriptions off to a different platform, because Apple will be handing the money. They must act ASAP to get off the Nazi propaganda platform to an alternative.

#SubstackHasANaziProblem #Substack

https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/substack-just-killed-creator-economy

With Substack's latest launch, writers are actually ceding control of the billing relationship to Apple, which now owns and controls the subscription.
These transactions, subscriptions, and customers will no longer be accessible in their Stripe account.

(little diagram showing people/subscriptions linked to Substack, where Apple will set a 30% fee for handling payments, while Strip charges another 10% before paying the writer)

Most importantly, that means that if writers choose to leave Substack, they won't be able to port their paid subscriptions over to another platform like they could previously. This predatory platform lock-in is incredibly dangerous for writers. It strips away data and control, while locking them into the platform.


By continuing to use #Substack, the #nazi bar of #publishing platforms, your priorities couldn't be clearer.

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-announcement-bari-weiss-free-press


“Imagine the author of a book telling people to ‘read my Amazon’. A great director trying to promote their film by saying ‘click on my Max’. […] There is no such thing as ‘my Substack’, there is only your writing…”

https://www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/

#Substack #Writing #Newsletter #Enshittification


Anyone used #Friendica? My wife @redbunhead.bsky.social discovered it when I told her about #Pixelfed.

I left #Facebook ~8yr ago & then #twitter for #mastodon. She’s on #FB & #Instagram & is exploring #BlueSky. We both just joined #Substack.

We’re looking for good decentralized social networks that aren’t owned by billionaires. I miss the FB feel sometimes, so any info on Friendica is appreciated.

Wife would also appreciate tips on choosing a Pixelfed server.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendica


People who say they don’t like nazis, but turn around and take money from nazis, and give money to nazis, do in fact like nazis.
#Substack


If you use #Substack, did you know that you can switch to @buttondown with more features? And the migration looks pretty easy. I might offer this as a service.

Buttondown: https://buttondown.email/comparisons/substack

Wired's migration how-to: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-migrate-newsletter-substack-to-buttondown/


#Substack is full of drama, losing money, building moats, and conning writers into investing to own less than 1% of the company.

Meanwhile #Ghost is open source, a non-profit, growing sustainably and looks like it will make $6 million in rev this year, according to their public metrics.

Choose your fighter wisely.

Also if you have any interest in moving over to ghost, hit me up. Happy to advise

https://ghost.org/about/



You left Twitter because they started welcoming transphobes, QAnon, antivaxxers, racists and neo-Nazis onto their platform?

Then I'm afraid I have some bad news about your Substack newsletter…

#substack

https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/anti-vaxxers-qanon-influencers-and-white-nationalists-flocking-to-substack/