I feel like Substack is lowkey full of the people who get overly excited about the small things in life which everyone else seems to miss - that morning coffee, the luxury of fresh sheets, the tiny synchronicities, evening light
You made it, you own it
You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
When you say Parlor is back, from where? Where were they?
I've never understood where social media (any media really) resides. If they have their own server how can they be "taken down" as long as the have an internet service provider? If they rent space from other servers like Amazon et.al. they can be denied the space they are renting and evicted (deplatformed) I suppose. So why wouldn't a company like Parlor maintain their own servers?