@maria @oscar Yes, to my eyes, Ghost's leaps over the past couple years mean it offers everything that Substack does and more. Ghost is deeply open-source, so its current features are guaranteed to run on your server of choice, ad-free and surveillance-free.
And like Maria, we've seen Big-Tech-backed platforms with communities crumble—e.g., Tumblr.
Substack's lead investor behind its Series A and B rounds was the giant firm Andreesen Horowitz, which made a fortune being early in Facebook...