Nazi content violates rules against incitement to violence, the company says
  • @cybersandwich@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33•6 months ago

    I know/knew next to nothing about substack 6 months ago.

    Now I only associate them as the other platform that allows Nazis on it.

  • Tiger JerusalemEnglish
    25•6 months ago

    “We’re not backtracking, we’re just doing a 180° turn from our previous course”. Fucking clowns, probably the Nazi money wasn’t enough to compensate the loss of subscribers.

  • @mutant_zz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•6 months ago

    Maybe I don’t understand Substack that well, but it seems like its market share would be extremely vulnerable. It’s just a way to provide a newsletter (also published on the web) and accept subscriptions (and presumably they take a cut). It’s really easy for someone to set this up themselves even with minimal tech skills. If they already have a following on Substack, they just tell their subscribers to move, and potentially could even import the subscriber list to a new platform. It’s not like social media where there’s a lot of boosting or whatever from others on the platform, so the switching costs are high.

    So unless I’m missing something, I hope people who don’t want Nazis around just move somewhere else. Because from the sounds of this article, they’re not really doing much about the Nazis.

    • gian English
      3•6 months ago

      Since they take a cut even on the nazis lists, they are going to take a hit in any case so they simply choose the smaller one. As a company is the logical pragmatic approach to use.

  • @maegul@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0•6 months ago

    So the fediverse has missed an opportunity here.

    Get subscriptions into the system, but decentralised (ie, not bound to a single platform / corporation) and you’ve pretty much got substack on the fediverse automatically with authors having all the control substack gives them and more.

    It’s a real no-brainer except that the fediverse’s aversion to money and any sort of “transactional” internet means such things are an afterthought here it seems, unfortunately.

    It saddens me a little, because on top of that, there seems to be relatively little impetus to lean into bringing blogging back on the fediverse (compared to trying to merely clone twitter), when it seems like the perfect fit for the fediverse and its decentralisation (unlike cloning twitter, which won’t really happen on the fediverse TBH). And just when a company could have been taught a lesson the fediverse seems to me to have dropped the ball.

  • FartsWithAnAccentEnglish
    0•6 months ago

    Neat.

    Edit: If you disagree with banning nazis, kindly go fuck yourself. Thanks!