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Substack co-founder: "What if we kissed at the Nazi bar?" (substack.com)
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The day just isn't complete without a tiresome retread of freeze peach rhetorical tropes. Oh, it's "important to engage with and understand" white supremacy. That's why we need to boost the voices of white supremacists! And give them money!

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Loved the Verge summary. From the subheader:

Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie’s plan to ‘strip bad ideas of their power’ is to profit from disseminating them as widely as possible.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011232/substack-nazi-moderation-demonetization-hamish-mckenzie

Note that Substack quite deliberately went out and hired on the furthest-right voices it thought it could get away with, and paid them massive advances. One reason for Substack's present financial woes is that a lot of these guys didn't work out. Our good friend Scooter is one who did, for example. In fact, he was the first to reveal that Substack was recruiting and paying these guys massive advances, while they were still telling the rest of the world that you could just sign up and make a newsletter and money would rain from the skies without mentioning that all Substack's big successes were being funded and promoted by Substack.

Substack was founded by a chud and funded by chuds, and this is well known. Nobody ever really had an excuse.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Got a link discussing their financial woes? Not disbelieving they have them, just want Schadenfreude.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

this is from April, looking for something more recent

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674178/substack-burn-2021-numbers-bad

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago

Speedrunning the Medium story

except Medium is still around, amazingly