“I’ve come to appreciate my silent notes off on its own corner of the Substack sphere 😅I may only get 1 like for a note but the way I see it is most people don’t see things in my perspective so if someone likes or comments then it means they really get me. I don’t think what I have to say is suppose to reach the masses anyways.”
“It’s also a volume game with notes. You won’t hear from many of them, but you should get some responses and subscribers in you comment on other similar substacks.”
“I tend to avoid substack because they’ll lure me in and hit me with a paywall 2/3 through the article. One time this happened on a billionaires blog.”
“New users coming in and joining substack to see what this community is about their first exposure they get is..."Ohh this is just everyone fishing for follows, well that's lame."”
“Substack is a good platform in some ways but absolutely horrible in others. The UI is objectively horrible and it has various toxic patterns some of which could be considered benefitting the blogger.”
“I hate substack. The only substack I read is Scott's, and that's just inertia from reading his original blog. The idea of homogenizing blogging is just not for me.”
“I uploaded a couple of videos but now I kind of feel like videos defeat the purpose of substack? After that day I never watched a video there again. I feel like if I want videos I will open TikTok or a podcast.”
“Substack helps people find an audience in an unbelievable way. By making it much easier to engage with content, writers get much better feedback and have an easier time finding their niche.”
“Without making it private, a Substack is a public website. You can’t just “hide it” from someone. People don’t have to log in to view Substacks or anything.”
“Yes, but they’ve mostly built a following elsewhere and use Substack to monetize it. They usually validate topics by producing short-form content and then bring the audience to Substack.”
“I seriously want to know what she does all day. she couldn’t even keep up the substack for a month she’s so lazy. Alex loves so cosplay as a girl boss entrepreneur but in reality everything she does fails!”
“I’m new to Substack gonna start posting lore from my universe I’m building if it takes off. Awesome more people will learn about my book getting published next year.”
“I write on Substack, and I just started a paywall. I waited 4 years to do that so I could show my performance and gain confidence from users. I know they cost more than $200/yr, but if you find the right fit I think it is worth the money.”
“At 5:45 pm CST, I suddenly got tons of emails from substack with verification codes from things I haven't heard of. I didn't click on any of them, but it was strange to suddenly get a bunch of emails. I thought I was getting hacked.”
“Most of the subscribers to finance Substacks already pay hundreds a year for Financial Times, etc. Maybe $20k+ a year for a Bloomberg terminal. So a few hundred for a Substack is not unaffordable.”
“I’m not the biggest fan of it either, I’ve only been using it a few weeks and overall I do enjoy it. I think the general vibes are great and there’s some really nice content on there, but there are far more low effort posts and pictures etc than I thought. But that is the substack discovery game - notes, comments, restacks, connecting with people.”
“Pangram's third-party Because Substack is simply licensing this technology to combat AI content. They are using your content to train or create anything because they don’t have an AI model.”
“Substack states that it does not use creator content to train generative AI models. Substack provides a "Block AI training" toggle in publication settings, which signals to external third-party AI scrapers and crawlers that they should not use your publication's content to train their models.”
“Anyway, the Substack game is foreign to me. I made an account but I can't be bothered to write on it. Been thinking about repurposing a few of my articles from my sites to test it out though.”