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   Tom Walker (tomw@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 06:41:25 JST Tom Walker

   Them: "We are launching a new publication"

   Me: 😐

   Them: "We intend to do journalism differently"

   Me: 😐

   Them: "We will be beholden to no one in our search for truth"

   Me: It's a Substack isn't it?

   Them: "You will be able to subscribe using the Substack platform"

   Me: (closes tab)

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     Tom Walker (tomw@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 16:41:13 JST Tom Walker

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     • lori

     @lori What annoys me personally is that a lot of these people don't think they are setting up something that is approximately a blog (which they are), but something that is approximately an online magazine

     anban repeated this.
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     Mathias (mathias@sharkey.world)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 16:41:13 JST Mathias

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     • lori

     @tomw@mastodon.social @lori@cambrian.social
     
     A thing that has annoyed me the last couple of days is that I have friends to finally, FINALLY, decided to leave Facebook, Instagram etc (which I've been telling them for literally years) and then they say they are moving to Substack. Oh. Right.
     
     I don't know what to say to them. I mean, it is good that they move off Meta's services, but if I start telling them what I think of Substack they might just...well...not move. I still see them not moving as worse than them moving on to Substack, but I might be confused here in my thinking that if they have started moving they might be more open to other, better, services (than Substack).

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     lori (lori@cambrian.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 16:41:15 JST lori

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     Too many smart people are going to Substack. I want to feed my head, but I can't open that website without feeling somehow used. I hate that blogs have given way to "newsletters."