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Woke up to 7,500 subscribers and 300 paid ones today 🥹
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Logged out Twitter for the last time today, it definitely feels good. I don’t think I’m really going to use these notes unless there’s a good reason, because the dopamine treadmill is a huge part of why I left. If I’m gonna get likes and restacks at least let me earn it with longform content.
what will be answer?
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Hey algorithm, I want to connect with people who love:
📚 books
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📝 writing
📖 quiet life
🧠 mental health
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PS. I wanna be friends! 👋🏻
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Bluesky seems ok, compared to most social media, but any time I mention my Substack on there somebody who doesn’t follow me pops up and tells me, “How f***ing DARE you try to earn your living on that site? It’s full of Nazis. Take all your work down from Substack and go penniless, IMMEDIATELY, because I, someone who has no interest in your work and has no idea who you are, and doesn’t even truly have a clue about what Substack is, but did once read some disinformation about it posted by a distracted digitally-addicted idiot while I too was distracted, decree that you should do so!”
No doubt there are some dangerous and evil people on this site - just as there are on all parts of the internet, including Bluesky - but what I see mostly are kind, thoughtful individuals who love reading, helping to create an alternative way for writers to get by and possibly even flourish.
Also, the last person who vomited that bullying rant in my direction listed in their bio the fact that they “hate cats” as one of their interests. Which in my experience is always a very telling thing about a person.
They would be naive to think the bots, maga trolls and straight up Nazis aren’t also tracking them on Bluesky. There is nowhere on the internet where they are not. Your account is one of the most enjoyable on Substack. Nobody has a right to tell you where to post your writing or anything else. You also are providing a valuable service by identifying all the inter dimensional portals 😂 which I absolutely love. Now if you can only find out where each one leads to, we can make use of them to…
I have had the same reaction from people about Substack. I have personally not encountered any evil people or Nazi sympathizers here, just plenty of fellow and lovely artists and writers. Bad people are on every platform. If we left every platform because of them, we’d have nowhere left to go.
Handle your own way, of course, but I’ve found that simply Blocking and Muting is the easiest on your sanity. No response — just Block.
I think it's time for me to dust off bluesky app make a single post about two things;
“Hey, I'm doing substack, and I'm only posting stuff about my cat!”
I wonder what will the response be…
Our cat meanwhile:
My grandad used to be fond of drawing cat’s bums. He did it in this kind of comical way that built up bit by bit out of innocent lines and curves he’d tell you were one thing or another until the final image was revealed of a cat leaving and going around the corner. I wish I could recall the flow of his story and patter.
Despite the accusations against Substack, I’ve the least amount of hateful posts on my feed compared to any other social media platforms. Whatever they are doing at the tech end works for me, so far.
The algorithm appears to be very finely tuned to that which you pay attention to. Comment or like a few bird photos and you see more and more bird photos. However the reverse is also true, if you argue with or comment on everything you see you disagree with then the algorithm will feed you more of that. I think Substack reflects the things you see that you give your attention to and is honestly a helpful mirror.
I will never trust a cat hater.
I joined Bluesky, didn’t like it any better than the usual social media sites, and dropped it again. As for the varying world perspectives, good and evil and all that lies between, we are all mixed up together everywhere. That is what makes life dangerous and glorious and something to be navigated with care and deep thought.
you nailed it.
people need to take the responsibility to read and fact check what they’re sharing if the source is unfamiliar.
but too many people are lazy or don’t want to take responsibility for educating themselves.
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