Still good writers and I can filter out the nonsense. So long as dissident thinkers are here, I will be too. And if that changes, well, I have my books.
I learned approximately 8 months ago that substack does censor! I found old stacks from early 2020 about Covid and how it was a farce. I found early Game India articles that were censored the same as everywhere else!!! A lot of the authors seemed to be from India trying to get the big hoax information out.
There is not more leftists on substack. Just more paid trolls and AI making the stupidest comments. You may make a comment and to deter conversation an AI bot responds with an irrelevant answer or a hyper religious answer.
And let’s not forget all the fake paid government racists to lure the same. And the violent comments to lure other lunatics so that you get put on a watch list to spy on.
Substack threads are hard to read when they get too long. There is also stalkers and people who repeat absolute gibberish that ruin threads intentionally. There is lots of people I mute/block and the function doesn’t work!!!
There is not more leftists here. Just more government intervention that helps deter speech/communication. I barely come here now so their antics are working. You see this all occur on more controversial sites or posts the government doesn’t like.
There is also lots of fake limited hangout authors that put out misinformation. Then the paid bots/trolls all comment giving the garbage information some validity.
Until substack writers complain… nothing will happen.
Having followed Glen Greenwald and Matt Taibbi for a few years prior to 2020, I subscribed to both on Substack when they initially launched their stacks. Glen moved over to Locals and I followed him there, but by that time I had discovered more libertarian focused writers on Substack, and Bari Weiss’s Common Sense surprised and delighted me. At first I was thrilled with her launch of TFP and I enjoyed reading the balanced reporting offered, the highlight of which for me was her participation in the release of the Twitter files. I find when I read thoughtful more liberal leaning writing it helps me hone my own libertarian views, and prepares me to engage in face to face discussions because I’ve been exposed to the arguments and have solidified my positions based on not only what the author is saying, but also input in the subscriber comments. But I’ve become dismayed in the last 10 months or so by the tone of the writing on TFP, and I’m noticing a condescending contemptuous undercurrent directed at conservatives. So much so, that I canceled my paid subscription to The Free Press last week. I began to feel uneasy with Substack when I read the article about Substack having “a Nazi problem," (sorry, I can’t recall the author’s name) and the fallout from that. I remember thinking, "here we go, let’s see what direction this takes," and it looks like I was right to be uneasy.
I’ve observed a pattern over the last few decades. A conservative leaning organization, be it religious, political, educational, recreational, etc., will gradually relax their hardline stances and become more tolerant and open to other voices thinking there will be a mutual respect and shared understanding of core principles. The volume of the more liberal voices will increase, becoming more strident, and the conservatives will acquiesce to demands they tone down their "right wing rhetoric,"—before you know it the terminology of bigotry and racism will be thrown around until slowly, then more rapidly, the conservative voices are forced to shut up altogether and are pushed out of any leadership positions and lose their places in the organization they founded. They will come together in small groups to begin again, only to find the same pattern rise up once the organization has become successful, and organization’s financial stability appears to play a role in the shift. Is that what I’m seeing with Substack? I’d like to think not, and I do find many more libertarian oriented people here than on other platforms, but there is definitely an undercurrent I’m paying attention to. Thanks for articulating what I’ve been struggling to understand.
Oh, I know. I’m a very inspirational person.😉. I didn’t expect all the feedback from content creators when I brought it up, it was so interesting to see where the conversation went.
Substack has been compromised by the technocrats. Recent tell is the email we all received analyzing how many words we had read and by whom. Its a surveillance tool like all platforms. Makes me furious.
Liberal and progressive are words that seem to be cover for COMMUNISTS. When I am told by a reader that neighbor told her she had a DUTY to pay for HIS kids "education" I can see how far we have gone and it was the impetus behind my Media Bypass article I wrote back in 2004. It is here, updated with more content. It's FACT. It can't be DENIED. And it PISSES ME OFF. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/communism-american-style
Simple: it's the extortion strategy. The more anti-narrative writers and followers, the higher the price the globalists will pay for Substack to silence it. Sooner or later, we'll need to move to a really free platform and as far as I know the only one left is gab.com (even gettr censored news about the ukraine), but unfortunately rejects to apply the substack model.
Still, people keep daydreaming: they are moving at full speed to impose CBDCs after a guided huge financial crisis. So we will not be able to receive a cent for our work, not even crypto:
In the meantime, would it be better an advertisement and/or subscription-based system where writers are paid by page-views?
The donation system only works for full-time writers with over 20 thousand free subscribers and 5% paying base: 1000 paying subscribers means 3.3K dollars a month.
The best possible solution is a writer coop that develops a similar platform while charging writers only the system’s cost divided by resource usage (emailing, hosting space).
Even better, writers would pay nothing with an open source solution using their own computers for hosting and list management. They would only share an API for one-stop sign up and the comments section or … platforms like discord?
We'd only need a step by step guide from a techie. We'd better move fast: it's obvious that sooner than later the owners of Substack will sell it to the usual billionaires, and that's the end of it, by censoring and blocking all freedom writers.
Sorry to hear this, & no its not ok to have a diverse audience to me. Liberals & progressives have & continue to ruin this country & sully everything good. If that sounds like intolerance then bingo- you can take tolerance too far & lose everything.
The algorithm has been putting more fluff and liberal stacks in front of me too which yields a swift mute action. Still getting the nonsense though...where else can we go?
I’ve only been here for a year and haven’t noticed anything. Do understand about the phone no. Request though..I’m just grateful I can still easily read the articles from the people who I learn the most from.
It’s great to feel part of a group who can read an article and share and collaborate from there. Ideas growing from ideas or info bringing more info as we feel bold enough to share without fear- as you have done here.
The question We must always ask is, "Who owns it." And could They be swayed by bribery and such to tamper with things. I know People have been complaining here that They are being unsubbed from People They would never unsub. I also heard that an AI is running things since late 2023. And so...
Thank you for this very informative and thought provoking article. I wondered about the changes we have gradually noticed. That is why we need a free space to collaborate. There are people out here who don't have friends or family to discuss the things they think and notice. Besides all of that, it helps to congregate with like minded. To share all things.
If this is turning into more information gathering gov. garbage, then those who support substack, need to speak loud and forceful enough to show their nonacceptance of it. I don't know if there is any place the tentacles of this, is even ever going to be possible in our future.
If content is considered left, middle or right on a political spectrum and anyone is concerned it may “turn” someone into an advocate, doesn’t that speak ill of the recipient and author? Isn’t the reason for discourse and dialogue a harbinger of an open intelligent mind? Maybe the concern is the profane may interpret the ideas incorrectly? Oh my, that’s dangerous.
As a reader I've noticed the same trend with the writers I follow. I can't tell if these people were always more left leaning and didn't want to express it or if they are purposefully leading audiences away from seeking truth purely for truth's sake. Either way it appears that things have changed and financial connections are an excellent way to gauge such changes.
An occasional content creator, having exceptionally thin skin, will actually BLOCK you after delivering a rant aimed in your direction. A totally unhinged overreaction to the MILDEST of your comments with which the creator disagrees.
Makes you really wonder how they've managed to get through life so far......
Fortunately, this is a rare phenomenon.
Hopefully, the use of CAPTCHAS in addition to paywalls put up to deny content access to readers will not become a widespread thing
We knew this coming in to Common Sense. Her only real objections to the NYT was it was anti-semitic; not that it was bat-shit crazy. It was always likely she would create her own bat-shit bubble.
Still good writers and I can filter out the nonsense. So long as dissident thinkers are here, I will be too. And if that changes, well, I have my books.
I learned approximately 8 months ago that substack does censor! I found old stacks from early 2020 about Covid and how it was a farce. I found early Game India articles that were censored the same as everywhere else!!! A lot of the authors seemed to be from India trying to get the big hoax information out.
There is not more leftists on substack. Just more paid trolls and AI making the stupidest comments. You may make a comment and to deter conversation an AI bot responds with an irrelevant answer or a hyper religious answer.
And let’s not forget all the fake paid government racists to lure the same. And the violent comments to lure other lunatics so that you get put on a watch list to spy on.
Substack threads are hard to read when they get too long. There is also stalkers and people who repeat absolute gibberish that ruin threads intentionally. There is lots of people I mute/block and the function doesn’t work!!!
There is not more leftists here. Just more government intervention that helps deter speech/communication. I barely come here now so their antics are working. You see this all occur on more controversial sites or posts the government doesn’t like.
There is also lots of fake limited hangout authors that put out misinformation. Then the paid bots/trolls all comment giving the garbage information some validity.
Until substack writers complain… nothing will happen.
I think you are right, I feel it's government interference muddying the substack waters as well.
Having followed Glen Greenwald and Matt Taibbi for a few years prior to 2020, I subscribed to both on Substack when they initially launched their stacks. Glen moved over to Locals and I followed him there, but by that time I had discovered more libertarian focused writers on Substack, and Bari Weiss’s Common Sense surprised and delighted me. At first I was thrilled with her launch of TFP and I enjoyed reading the balanced reporting offered, the highlight of which for me was her participation in the release of the Twitter files. I find when I read thoughtful more liberal leaning writing it helps me hone my own libertarian views, and prepares me to engage in face to face discussions because I’ve been exposed to the arguments and have solidified my positions based on not only what the author is saying, but also input in the subscriber comments. But I’ve become dismayed in the last 10 months or so by the tone of the writing on TFP, and I’m noticing a condescending contemptuous undercurrent directed at conservatives. So much so, that I canceled my paid subscription to The Free Press last week. I began to feel uneasy with Substack when I read the article about Substack having “a Nazi problem," (sorry, I can’t recall the author’s name) and the fallout from that. I remember thinking, "here we go, let’s see what direction this takes," and it looks like I was right to be uneasy.
I’ve observed a pattern over the last few decades. A conservative leaning organization, be it religious, political, educational, recreational, etc., will gradually relax their hardline stances and become more tolerant and open to other voices thinking there will be a mutual respect and shared understanding of core principles. The volume of the more liberal voices will increase, becoming more strident, and the conservatives will acquiesce to demands they tone down their "right wing rhetoric,"—before you know it the terminology of bigotry and racism will be thrown around until slowly, then more rapidly, the conservative voices are forced to shut up altogether and are pushed out of any leadership positions and lose their places in the organization they founded. They will come together in small groups to begin again, only to find the same pattern rise up once the organization has become successful, and organization’s financial stability appears to play a role in the shift. Is that what I’m seeing with Substack? I’d like to think not, and I do find many more libertarian oriented people here than on other platforms, but there is definitely an undercurrent I’m paying attention to. Thanks for articulating what I’ve been struggling to understand.
Great article, glad to see the expansion of yesterday’s C&C conversation. I’ve been feeling this too.
Thanks Valerie! Your comment inspired this article!
Oh, I know. I’m a very inspirational person.😉. I didn’t expect all the feedback from content creators when I brought it up, it was so interesting to see where the conversation went.
Substack has been compromised by the technocrats. Recent tell is the email we all received analyzing how many words we had read and by whom. Its a surveillance tool like all platforms. Makes me furious.
Liberal and progressive are words that seem to be cover for COMMUNISTS. When I am told by a reader that neighbor told her she had a DUTY to pay for HIS kids "education" I can see how far we have gone and it was the impetus behind my Media Bypass article I wrote back in 2004. It is here, updated with more content. It's FACT. It can't be DENIED. And it PISSES ME OFF. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/communism-american-style
Simple: it's the extortion strategy. The more anti-narrative writers and followers, the higher the price the globalists will pay for Substack to silence it. Sooner or later, we'll need to move to a really free platform and as far as I know the only one left is gab.com (even gettr censored news about the ukraine), but unfortunately rejects to apply the substack model.
Still, people keep daydreaming: they are moving at full speed to impose CBDCs after a guided huge financial crisis. So we will not be able to receive a cent for our work, not even crypto:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-plan-revealed
In the meantime, would it be better an advertisement and/or subscription-based system where writers are paid by page-views?
The donation system only works for full-time writers with over 20 thousand free subscribers and 5% paying base: 1000 paying subscribers means 3.3K dollars a month.
The best possible solution is a writer coop that develops a similar platform while charging writers only the system’s cost divided by resource usage (emailing, hosting space).
Even better, writers would pay nothing with an open source solution using their own computers for hosting and list management. They would only share an API for one-stop sign up and the comments section or … platforms like discord?
We'd only need a step by step guide from a techie. We'd better move fast: it's obvious that sooner than later the owners of Substack will sell it to the usual billionaires, and that's the end of it, by censoring and blocking all freedom writers.
Thoughts?
Sorry to hear this, & no its not ok to have a diverse audience to me. Liberals & progressives have & continue to ruin this country & sully everything good. If that sounds like intolerance then bingo- you can take tolerance too far & lose everything.
The algorithm has been putting more fluff and liberal stacks in front of me too which yields a swift mute action. Still getting the nonsense though...where else can we go?
I’ve only been here for a year and haven’t noticed anything. Do understand about the phone no. Request though..I’m just grateful I can still easily read the articles from the people who I learn the most from.
It’s great to feel part of a group who can read an article and share and collaborate from there. Ideas growing from ideas or info bringing more info as we feel bold enough to share without fear- as you have done here.
The question We must always ask is, "Who owns it." And could They be swayed by bribery and such to tamper with things. I know People have been complaining here that They are being unsubbed from People They would never unsub. I also heard that an AI is running things since late 2023. And so...
I ponder censorship, shadow banning, and such.
Thank you for this very informative and thought provoking article. I wondered about the changes we have gradually noticed. That is why we need a free space to collaborate. There are people out here who don't have friends or family to discuss the things they think and notice. Besides all of that, it helps to congregate with like minded. To share all things.
If this is turning into more information gathering gov. garbage, then those who support substack, need to speak loud and forceful enough to show their nonacceptance of it. I don't know if there is any place the tentacles of this, is even ever going to be possible in our future.
If content is considered left, middle or right on a political spectrum and anyone is concerned it may “turn” someone into an advocate, doesn’t that speak ill of the recipient and author? Isn’t the reason for discourse and dialogue a harbinger of an open intelligent mind? Maybe the concern is the profane may interpret the ideas incorrectly? Oh my, that’s dangerous.
As a reader I've noticed the same trend with the writers I follow. I can't tell if these people were always more left leaning and didn't want to express it or if they are purposefully leading audiences away from seeking truth purely for truth's sake. Either way it appears that things have changed and financial connections are an excellent way to gauge such changes.
An occasional content creator, having exceptionally thin skin, will actually BLOCK you after delivering a rant aimed in your direction. A totally unhinged overreaction to the MILDEST of your comments with which the creator disagrees.
Makes you really wonder how they've managed to get through life so far......
Fortunately, this is a rare phenomenon.
Hopefully, the use of CAPTCHAS in addition to paywalls put up to deny content access to readers will not become a widespread thing
What did you expect?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss
Interesting. Another member of "the tribe". Seems to be a common denominator among progressives and a lot of liberals.
Sorry to say, but it is really the first I check. Sad, sad, sad.
We knew this coming in to Common Sense. Her only real objections to the NYT was it was anti-semitic; not that it was bat-shit crazy. It was always likely she would create her own bat-shit bubble.