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   Anil (anildash@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 00:28:42 JST Anil

   I despair about how many talented people are using Substack when we know exactly where that whole mess is headed.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 00:28:41 JST clacke

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     @anildash Prescient. Turns out, in time Substack would explain the problem with Substack by stark example.
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     Anil (anildash@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 00:28:42 JST Anil

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     replies are evenly split between “we’ve seen this pattern play out so many times!” and “wait, what’s wrong with it?”

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     Anil (anildash@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 00:28:42 JST Anil

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     (I'm not trying to be obtuse, it's just that writing out the whole problem requires a lot of time, energy and effort because there's a lot of context-setting to do, and then you have to budget time for dealing with the wave of bullshit that follows anytime you level accurate criticisms at tech owned by silicon valley tycoons.)

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     Tim Bray (timbray@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 00:29:24 JST Tim Bray

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     @anildash I dunno if it's that hard to explain…

     Their business model doesn't work, because on the one hand subscription fatigue, and on the other, Internet advertising is broken. So, as they fail, they will do things that are increasingly abusive both to their writers and to their audience.

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     J. Nathan Matias 🦣 (natematias@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 06:20:43 JST J. Nathan Matias 🦣

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     @anildash the history of the internet seems to be a looping gif of lucy endlessly pulling the football from Charlie Brown, except that people actually get seriously hurt every time.

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