We Should All Move to Substack

After months of indecision, going back and forth, I've finally dipped my toe into Subtack's waters and launched my first newsletter/post. Here's my little town: ollieredfern.substack.com

I've changed my mind and now think it's a fairly good site, for now. So many of my favourite authors are there, a lot of interesting ideas are being exchanged, and the site itself is beginning to morph into something resembling a hybrid of Wordpress + Mailchimp + Twitter instead of just a newsletter platform. It feels like the next stage for bloggers and writers.

I'd previously written about how Substack had decided not to do anything about Nazis monetising via their site and how this had made me pause for thought. But then Substack went and banned the Nazis (though they didn't change their terms and conditions - they just applied the clause that prohibitied content that incites violence.) It also turned out that there were only 6 Nazi newsletters, in a sea of 100K newsletters, and that the investigative reporters for The Atlantic, who broke the story, had to do a lot of digging and searching to find them.

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