[HN Gopher] I'm staying at Substack, and will be moving to Subst...
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I'm staying at Substack, and will be moving to Substack Notes next
week
Author : doener
Score : 41 points
Date : 2023-04-07 21:36 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| blueridge wrote:
| Good time to move your Substack publication over to Ghost!
| Excellent product.
|
| https://ghost.org/
| api wrote:
| "Not your server, not your site."
| schnebbau wrote:
| Loremasters, what is happening here?
| AbrahamParangi wrote:
| Twitter is suppressing posts containing links to substack as
| well as at least one text post by substack itself explaining
| what's going on.
|
| The suppression takes the form of likes and retweets being
| disabled and presumably reach limited.
|
| To add my personal opinion, it's deeply pathetic.
| api wrote:
| This is in response to substack launching a potential Twitter
| competitor.
|
| They've done the same off and on to Mastodon, though after a
| while they backed off on that one a bit.
|
| Free speech!
| tehwebguy wrote:
| As of today (or yesterday?) if a tweet includes a link to a
| substack.com URL the tweet cannot be liked, retweeted or
| replied to. Likes will appear to work and then disappear. They
| can still be "quote tweeted".
|
| It's pretty funny because the individuals that Musk hand picked
| to give the "Twitter files" to all use Substack. They all
| embarrassed themselves by stretching what was _mostly_ nothing
| into a huge story seemingly on his behalf before he turned his
| back on them.
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| Adding context: this follows Substack launching a Twitter-
| like short-messaging product.
| adamsb6 wrote:
| Federal and state governments collaborating with tech
| companies to censor American citizens is not mostly nothing.
|
| They shadow-downranked a medical doctor at Stanford for Covid
| "misinformation."
| lern_too_spel wrote:
| No need for scare quotes. https://mobile.twitter.com/19joho
| /status/1463540124407451659
| PaulHoule wrote:
| It's like what they did to Robespierre, Danton, et al. in the
| French Revolution.
|
| It is too bad that they brought back the tweety bird because I
| was about to make a sticker using the Doge and other symbolism
| intended to trigger the opsonization of macroscopic objects.
| paulpauper wrote:
| Just like the AI is not your friend, neither is Musk. Look how
| he did a reversal on Bitcoin, Doge. People who bought Doge coin
| a few days ago are down 13%. He pumped BTC in 2021 and Tesla
| dumped its position in 2022 at a small loss, but BTC investors
| who heeded Tesla were at one point down over 50%. You cannot
| trust that these people are looking out for your interests.
| It's all business in the end. You have to assume that these
| people are only looking after themselves, in the end.
| api wrote:
| ... or the Trotskyites in the Soviet revolution.
|
| ... or a whole bunch of very surprised fascists in the Nazi
| "Night of the Long Knives."
|
| ... or almost everyone in Pol Pot's Cambodia.
|
| Yes, the leopards will eat your face too. The loyalty in
| totalitarian societies only goes up the chain of command.
| Everyone down the chain is expendable.
|
| The leopards are going to eat Elon's face in the end. Just
| wait. Someone should tell him his new friends hate EVs and
| renewable energy and don't give a damn about space.
|
| Same for Peter Thiel. He's gay, which means they think he's a
| degenerate subhuman. They're happy to take his money but if
| they gain power he's gonna be cat food.
| watwut wrote:
| Utterly confused about Robespiere reference. Like ... how,
| what?
| mustacheemperor wrote:
| Oh my god, anyone encountering this thread, for the sake of your
| mental health do not open that link and scroll the replies.
|
| I got immediate flashbacks to 00s youtube comments and closed the
| tab, I feel like it's not enough, like I should shut down my
| computer and spend three days hiking the mountains to detox from
| that.
|
| No clue if that's the norm across twitter these days but oh
| golly.
| j_crick wrote:
| Don't know what's _that_ abnormal there aside from the overall
| cringe from the whole ordeal vOv
| suddenclarity wrote:
| You'll find subsections of anything on any platform. This is a
| famous controversial person writing about a controversial
| topic. It will bring the worst of the worst. Even this site
| goes crazy whenever there's a thread on Twitter or Musk.
| Although more tame since here's an actual mod.
| sega_sai wrote:
| And while blocking sharing the substack links, they removed all
| the restrictions on Russian official government accounts
| https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1644441340497784846 Good
| job Elon!
| user3939382 wrote:
| What's wrong with the Russian government having a voice? They
| represent millions of people. The ease with which our media
| just duped our whole country into hating Russia and supporting
| this war is very scary.
| Yizahi wrote:
| What is really crazy is how conservatives have brainwashed
| millions into thinking black is white and united crybabies
| all around the world. Not really surprising, given whole
| human history of succumbing to liars and scumbags, but a pity
| anyway. That's why we can't have nice things.
| davidw wrote:
| > represent millions of people
|
| They represent one man.
| drewda wrote:
| In recent years, political scientists have been starting to
| talk about "electoral authoritarian regimes" -- how
| dictators make use of some amount of popular support,
| media, and other tools to stay in power.
|
| For example "Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion,
| and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism" by Aleksandar
| Matovski: https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Dictatorships-
| Opinion-Elector...
|
| I'm no expert, but I find this an interesting line of
| thought. It feels like a way to more fully understand the
| specific dynamics of how someone like Putin stays in power
| in Russia -- rather than just calling Putin a dictator.
|
| (Don't get me wrong. I believe in the values of the modern
| "free world" order that is led by the US, even if it's
| imperfect. Just want to also better understand how the
| opponents also think and operate.)
| singleshot_ wrote:
| "just duped our whole country into hating Russia"
|
| Did you sleep through the Cold War? Haven't these guys been
| the enemy since shortly after World War Two? Where did you
| get the idea that being opposed to Russia happened recently?
|
| The real question is how the insurrectionists think that this
| line of logic isn't ridiculous.
| drewcoo wrote:
| Something about smirking Ronnie helping Yeltsin transition
| to "democracy" so that the US could "invest" told me that
| the Cold War was over.
|
| You do realize they're not communists anymore, right?
| benguillet wrote:
| Substack must be thrilled with Twitter's decision to block their
| links (which will be reverted I'm sure), great publicity for
| Notes.
| serial_dev wrote:
| So petty and counterproductive. I would have missed the whole
| Substack Notes announcement if it wasn't for Matt Taibbi (and
| for Twitter hostile approach).
|
| Matt did a great job with the Twitter files, he has integrity
| and he's "incorruptible" whereas Elon is a petty tyrant who
| goes nuclear for the slightest disagreements, so I honestly
| wouldn't be surprised if this will end up with Matt's account
| removed.
| benguillet wrote:
| Yup, Musk already stopped following Matt Taibbi
| https://twitter.com/BigTechAlert/status/1644438910305464326
| mmcclure wrote:
| Were it not for Twitter blocking Substack links I likely never
| would have heard of Notes[1], and I'm even someone that knows
| about/likes Substack. This feels like another weird own goal by
| Elon/Twitter that's giving quite a bit more amplification to a
| competitive product than if they'd done nothing[2].
|
| [1] https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes
|
| [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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