Substack builds a Twitter (Notes) and Twitter builds a Substack (Write). Either way you're still beholden to the whims of an organisation that only has it's own interests at heart.
Looks like Twitter Write lets you create things called Notes. That's not at all meant to impinge on Substack's naming. 😆
I must admit, Substack's offering looks quite good, and they still seem to be serving writers, but it's shaping up to be its own walled garden. Waaaaayyyy beyond the original idea of paid newsletters.
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2023/04/14#p2
"The intent is what matters"
Great video about so much more than just Aphex Twin.
Update It's stupid that this video has been age restricted by YouTube. Maybe It's a ploy to get people to go there directly and sign in because it was getting a lot of views. Is that too cynical?
I know from my own experience that recommendation algorithms eventually break down, given enough randomness over a sufficiently long stretch of time. People change, their tastes change, but the algorithms don't understand this, or make assumptions that may not mesh with reality.
I have a theory that new & original content will emerge anyway, and will propagate by routing around the algorithms. If my Bandcamp experience is anything to go by, there is already a world of original music out there many times the size of the mainstream. Similarly for digital art. And these creators will devise ways of avoiding the data scrapers. Without fresh data, the machine will eventually falter and stop.
Looks like Twitter Write lets you create things called Notes. That's not at all meant to impinge on Substack's naming. 😆
I must admit, Substack's offering looks quite good, and they still seem to be serving writers, but it's shaping up to be its own walled garden. Waaaaayyyy beyond the original idea of paid newsletters.