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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 13:34:30 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   They honestly need to get better PR people 😅

   #Substack

   https://www.platformer.news/p/substack-says-it-will-remove-nazi

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 13:55:58 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Ellane ·𐑧𐑤𐑱𐑯

     @ellane It's one PR disaster after another. I pity them (speaking as a former government comms person who had to craft messages to an angry public eager to crucify my agency at every opportunity.)

     Substack is becoming increasingly walled garden and the Notes feature is so distracting and I had a super unpleasant experience on it when a well-known author decided to misquote me and use me as an example for something I didn't ask for. I will use it as a tool but am distancing myself from Notes.

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     Ellane ·𐑧𐑤𐑱𐑯 (ellane@pkm.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 13:55:59 JST Ellane ·𐑧𐑤𐑱𐑯

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     @liztai I'm not sure what to think about this. Uh, well done? But a bit too late. They had time to investigate fully before making that public statement.

     I could so easily stay with Substack, especially now that they've wiped their nose, but as you've expressed in the past it's just a bit icky. Their Notes would have been a killer feature (maybe) if it had been ActivityPub compatible, and not just closed shop.

     Don't fence me in, peeps.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 14:07:17 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Ellane ·𐑧𐑤𐑱𐑯

     @ellane I'm sort of mirroring my content to my website, so if I move it'll be relatively easy. Just need to download list and transfer. I hope anyway haha

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     Ellane ·𐑧𐑤𐑱𐑯 (ellane@pkm.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 14:07:18 JST Ellane ·𐑧𐑤𐑱𐑯

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     @liztai It's really hard to beat as a tool you don't have to pay for up front. (It's going to be a lot of work for me to move, no idea how long it will take.) I hope it keeps working out for you.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 15:09:09 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Justin Cox

     @ellane meanwhile I may try Medium as it is highly recommended by @justin How is Medium for you?

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 15:29:57 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Bernie the Wordsmith has moved to Neopaquita.es

     @berniethewordsmith IKRRR?? I think only PR professionals can feel this pain haha

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     Bernie the Wordsmith has moved to Neopaquita.es (berniethewordsmith@masto.es)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 15:29:59 JST Bernie the Wordsmith has moved to Neopaquita.es

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     @liztai My thoughts exactly. I mean, don't get me wrong, I find all of this morally reprehensible and I cancelled all my substack stuff. But that is not at odds with the team leader inside of me screaming into the void every time I see some PR text of them and asking why why why why you thought this was good idea for a press release why why why