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From “An Honest Conversation About Dishonesty”: So again, you say I’ve changed. But I would submit I haven’t. You have. (Or people like you — not truly knowing your past, I’m using you as a stand-in for a type I encounter with great frequency.) I’m still against all the horrible ideas I used to be against. But the terrain changed on me, …
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I started blogging at the turn of the century. Back then LiveJournal was THE place. It was clean, white, uncluttered, ads-free with nice organization of comments. Facebook and other platforms stole the LJ audiences but those of us who indulged in the slow pace and intimacy of Livejournal publications in the 1990s and early 2000s have been missing those old days. Back then the word "followers" did not yet exist and everyone who subscribed to your blog was referred to as a "reader." Now with Subs…
The clean and uncluttered (and ad-free!) space that is Substack is so much of the reason why I'm here. I'm sure the creators did that deliberately, so I just hope it always stays that way.