Made a friend in JA who always pronounces it ‘Jerem-in-y’ when she has a little too much to hic drink XD
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It kinda speaks volumes, doesn’t it?
There’s Franko back in April '20, then four-and-some years later you can see where the lifeboats hit the beach.
I scribbled all over it for some cider-related reason.
ETA: I seem to have cut off @Millie_Fink and @subextraordinaire and @KarlS at the top there.
Sorry, clumsy.
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Actual footage:
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That is literally the inside of my head.
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I either have self control or meat space keeps me too damned busy at random intervals, interfering with serial doomscrolling. 
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Ooh! Ooh! I’m in the club!
Seems weird that I just got the notice, though, 19 hours later 
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(Not an issue. It just makes my brain wonder how things work.)
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It’s a medium sized club, and you ARE in it!
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I ducked over to the other place and saw this message:
Also I had no idea that BoingBoing was still posting articles over there. Who knew?
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i get their daily digest email thingy. i do not give them money. i guess they made good with the subscription offer and had my valid email address.
i look at what was posted, but do not go to the sub site or interact in any way.
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I turned off all emails so i don’t get the daily email, but if i did i know that looking at it would make me sad so it’s better to keep it at arm’s length.
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I guess this is a fluke, but Gareth Branwyn wrote an article that must’ve posted to the old BBS:
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How very appropriate. A nice little bit of discord on the 23rd.
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Timothy Snyder and Heather Cox Richardson are both on Substack; I wonder if either of them have to move to another platform?
ETA; I meant to say "I wonder if either of them have plans to move … "
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I mean it depends on how much you care about these things vs getting the message out.
HCR is also on facebook, for example.
For European Perspective it was partly “nazi bar”, but also they wanted to fully host operations in europe; there is a current trend in europe that feels too much money is getting divested to american companies which themselves are funded by right-wing technobros, so self-hosting in europe is seen as a bit of performative protest. Substack is very much another in a long chain of examples of american servers fucking with our money to fund technocapitalism fantasies.
They also said the final straw was basically Trump. They were planning to move but the kick to action was these past weeks.
Finally, they cited they followed the model of and fully subscribe to the same reasons Molly White presented, which is a mix of economic and ethical reasons.
So many times its really not that much about “well, it’s a nazi bar” and… “Can I afford to invest the time and patience to self host? Will it reach my subscribers as well?”. For some, the balance is already tipped out, others are still struggling to pile up reasons.
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Yeah, I agree; Cox Richardson has over 2 million subscribers, and she might lose a chunk if she moved to another platform, or started her own website; she is reaching a lot of people.
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None of this is straightforward, because right now, Substack is able to generate more revenue for creators than almost any other platform can at a given subscriber level.
Not everyone can afford to move to a platform that generates near-zero revenue (or actually zero revenue like Cory’s site and newsletter)
Worse, and I’ve said this before, it’s sucks that real, honest journalism and critical thought has to be behind a paywall to even have a chance to exist, while random misinformation and outright hate can exist on a million “free” platforms, be amplified by all of them, and make money through scam advertising and sheer volume.
We basically ask the most upsetting, ethical, mindful creators and journalists to either lock their content away in a walled garden to make a living or to leave those gardens and forego a paycheck in order to “do the right thing.” It’s a damning indictment of the modern internet that only the upstanding and moral have to make this choice, everyone else can make a living and reach 10x, 100x more people on any of a dozen platforms if they’re willing to be hateful and false. The “middle ground” (which places like Substack and folks who still have to use twitter/facebook/whatever to make a living) sucks for a myriad of reasons, but the internet provides no viable alternative unless you’re prepared to essentially opt out of making a living, privileged enough already that you don’t need the money, or trading off some other aspect of your audience (like ads and tracking and shitty sponsorships or whatever) so you can both create great works AND not have to hold down a separate day job.
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