I read a lot of Substack. There are some excellent writers there, and once you find a few decent creators it can snowball into a reliable source of interesting content. I first started reading various covid-related Substack newsletters in 2020 but I do a lot of daily reading there now. There’s also a “notes” feature to the app/website that is reminiscent of twitter. One thing I will say is that there is of late a LOT more liberal/progressive content on there than before. A lot of the more “based” Substacks seem to have been relegated to the “Health Politics” section of the top ten listings, but as long as you curate your own list of content creators there’s plenty to read. Still, there’s not very much censorship (or none at all there) as far as I can tell. I’ve been tossing out J-pills in the comments.
Some of the newsletters I like:
Simplicius’s Garden of Knowledge: geopolitical analysis and some of the best info and analysis of the Ukrainian War https://substack.com/@simplicius76?r=7ja88&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
eugyppius: a plague chronicle A German physician writing about covid and politics https://open.substack.com/pub/eugyppius?r=7ja88&utm_medium=ios
Coffee and Covid: I read this every morning, highly entertaining news roundup from a based Floridian Christian lawyer. https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid?r=7ja88&utm_medium=ios
Bad cattitude- written by (as far as I tell) an anonymous libertarian data scientist or statistician, this Substack had some of the best content I read during covid https://open.substack.com/pub/boriquagato?r=7ja88&utm_medium=ios
Postcards From Barsoom- I think I have to recommend this one above all the others. Every essay written by “John Carter” for this Substack is excellent, and probably highly relevant for readers of this forum. https://open.substack.com/pub/barsoom?r=7ja88&utm_medium=ios
That’s all I’m going to bother linking but Pierre Kory, Robert Malone, Keith Woods, Aaron Mate, John Mearsheimer, Vox Day, Ryan Dawson, and plenty of other worthwhile writers publish there.
There was one misstep mentioned here not too long ago: Substack said it removed some newsletters after criticism about Nazi content
Just as a general head's up to the OP - and anyone else reading this. In any URL header, everythig after the "?" is for data tracking and can be removed from the URL.
For example, on Postcards from Barsoom, you can take the OP URL and shorten it by cutting off starting at the ? to look like so:
https://open.substack.com/pub/barsoom
Just an FYI for anyone who wants to obscure their data tracking any way they can!
The best part about GET requests; no body to hide the trackers
Yeah the corp brand lib content is getting astroturfed everywhere. I read a lot of useless fiction on Kindle Unlimited. popcorn Sci-fi, LitRPG, progression/stats stuff, etc. It's mostly just 'content'. Usually Goodreads suggests more of the same. Lately it's been an absolute flood of feminist lit (but the Raytheon kind, not TERF), gay shit, coincidentally all Democrat biography / social causes, and non-stop female author push as recommendations.
It’s the retarded comic book strategy. Their shit isn’t selling so they pump out more of mask the data.
You mean the landfills refuse to take anymore of these NY Times bestsellers?
Hunter Biden is a great artist. His paintings sell for tens of thousands to discerning art-enjoyers.
Your jealousy is palpable. Seethe more, chud.
/s
I write about things that are broken in science.:
http://thescienceanalyst.substack.com
Subscribed.
Small platforms are not blackmailed by woke lobbies until they become big like Reddit, then threats are made to moderate content to fit the woke narrative.
Basically if you're too small to be a threat you're allowed to exist. The takeaway is of course that Substack, much like every other blog in the last several decades, is simply too small to matter. They aren't actually important. They're inconsequential and thus ignored.
There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept."
I don't know why your comment made me think of that, but I think there are many gradations between "inconsequential" and "able to directly affect global culture change". Also our enemies make mistakes and are not omniscient.
I never tire of The Fuck Rate is about to Implode.
Damn this is some poetic writing
Yeah, I read Morgoth's Review and Millenial Woes on Substack, both guys that I used to watch a lot of on YouTube before the purges. I'm glad conservative thinkers have a more professional space like that to collate some real work, rather than just reacting to the news cycle.
I don't know a ton about it but I may check it out. I'd far, far rather read political commentary than videos. Most of the videos are too damn long and just repeat themselves.
over at NoNewNormal we have quite a few Substack articles - was one of the few places that had true Covid information during scamdemic
Substack is great, but it's UI isn't the most accessible for casuals. I actually somewhat enjoy their deliberate efforts to keep from turning into a news-aggregator type of site, but the microblog and social-media obsessed Average Internet User would probably be turned off by their format.
My email is now 1000 unread emails due to substack.
What tools can archive substack pages and their comments just in the event they try and shut it down?
Any webpage scraper can do that. You don't even need a scraper really, you can use the Substack's RSS feed.
Simplicius is very good on OSINT, less so on philosophy. I believe he's some form of agnostic and it colors his writing there.
I've largely given up reading up on people like that because to be blunt it's a circle jerk these days and most of those kinds of posts made are designed to red pill normies who will never ever look at that content because they don't consider it to be a 'credible' source. I've watched the lotus eaters a fair bit as an example but it gets very tedious after awhile where it's endless bitching about double standards and about how unfair it is.
Now don't get me wrong, I think it's a niche that has it's place and it can server to red pill some people. Would I pay money for it personally? No, especially when the opinions even if they're coming from professionals are nothing revolutionary in the slightest and I can see the exact same thing posted on a youtube comment for free these days from some pissed off autist who's cycling through an anon account to vent because they know we're all being watched.
Read some Postcards From Barsoom at least.
I'd rather watch plane autism and do microsoft flight simulator and code my own video games lol way more productive and fun.