On the WordPress import, I've had issues in the pass where the importer balks if the file is too big. It's basically just an xml file, I've broken exports down into smaller chunks and imported that way. Assuming you are using WP.com, and guessing the import size is pretty limited. Good luck!
Dear Tom. Apologies for not commenting on your previous post. I wouldn’t want you to think that my non-response implied acquiescence or approval of Substack’s position. To be honest, I wasn’t aware that this issue existed until I read your last item. I subscribe to a number of substacks, but they’re all here in the UK and this topic has not been raised on any of them. However, you can be assured that I will be raising it going forward.
On the matter of hate speech, you have my total support for any actions you take.
On the matter of paid subscriptions, I positively encourage you to move. As I indicated, I subscribe to a number of substacks on different topics. I’d like to support all of them to some degree. However, the minimum $5/month means I cannot possibly afford to. I’d be shelling out maybe $60 per month, $720 per year! I probably could support you financially if you were on a platform that support micro-payments.
To give some context. Here in the UK, I subscribe to The Guardian and Observer newspapers online and through their app for £95 pa. This gives me 364 issues a year, each with dozens of articles, of which I read maybe 20 in depth, plus immediate access to breaking news. That’s 1.3p per article read. To equate that to anything on Substack that publishes weekly and with a content of 5-10 articles would imply an annual subscription of maybe £7 Per Year!!! (I think my maths is right).
I think that allowing content that is evil in content needs to be either removed or tagged as offensive. Kind of like yelling "Fire" in a movie theater. Still Substack provides you with a way to get your information out economically. It still is a good path, provided there is no link to deleterious content. I like what you do and find it valuable.
Stay or move, I will follow. VE7GYA. I am growing uncomfortable with substack’s approach. Their Staying silent is condoning the racist material. Our society “holds its nose” on so many abhorrent topics. I was just starting to enjoy myself here....
I also agree with your position and I believe there is an option to keep your content free but also to engage people who want to help you defray your costs. You create valuable content and a focal point for a community. Thanks for what you do.
I agree with your position. Substack’s attempt to be neutral on evil in practice, has the effect of creating a permission structure for and supporting evil.
Hate speech is like a cancer in as much as if you don’t try as hard as you can to snuff it out it takes over and kills things. Same thing goes for purposeful misinformation, which may not reach the height of hate speech, but still has the same cancerous effect.
I have no respect for platform creators who want to put no effort into maintaining their platform.
Content moderation is the cost of doing business. Pay the cost or get out of the damn business.
OK folks, thank you for the many ideas and comments, some of which came to me directly instead of through comments here (which is fine with me). I've decided to keep the Substack instance of RandomWire.us alive and to mirror each post at a WordPress.com site. The domain name for the mirror site is propagating now so it may be intermittently up and down for the next day or so. If you are more comfortable visiting somewhere other than Substack, find it at https://cupofradio.com Keeping a mirror site also means content will likely remain up if something happens to the Substack system (you know the saying: one is none and two is one!). Thank you for y our help and patience.
Forgot to mention a couple of options I'm playing with. One is simply mirroring all of my Substack content on a WordPress blog. That is not working particularly well in my testing but I haven't given up on it, particularly as it is the easiest solution for folks who, like me, want their content as free as possible.
Hey Tom :)
On the WordPress import, I've had issues in the pass where the importer balks if the file is too big. It's basically just an xml file, I've broken exports down into smaller chunks and imported that way. Assuming you are using WP.com, and guessing the import size is pretty limited. Good luck!
Dear Tom. Apologies for not commenting on your previous post. I wouldn’t want you to think that my non-response implied acquiescence or approval of Substack’s position. To be honest, I wasn’t aware that this issue existed until I read your last item. I subscribe to a number of substacks, but they’re all here in the UK and this topic has not been raised on any of them. However, you can be assured that I will be raising it going forward.
On the matter of hate speech, you have my total support for any actions you take.
On the matter of paid subscriptions, I positively encourage you to move. As I indicated, I subscribe to a number of substacks on different topics. I’d like to support all of them to some degree. However, the minimum $5/month means I cannot possibly afford to. I’d be shelling out maybe $60 per month, $720 per year! I probably could support you financially if you were on a platform that support micro-payments.
To give some context. Here in the UK, I subscribe to The Guardian and Observer newspapers online and through their app for £95 pa. This gives me 364 issues a year, each with dozens of articles, of which I read maybe 20 in depth, plus immediate access to breaking news. That’s 1.3p per article read. To equate that to anything on Substack that publishes weekly and with a content of 5-10 articles would imply an annual subscription of maybe £7 Per Year!!! (I think my maths is right).
Start competing hate groups with links to nothing but AMSR videos on Youtube. https://youtu.be/cLoWGIndHBM?si=aZ8XgdnNjyqnQLjN
I think that allowing content that is evil in content needs to be either removed or tagged as offensive. Kind of like yelling "Fire" in a movie theater. Still Substack provides you with a way to get your information out economically. It still is a good path, provided there is no link to deleterious content. I like what you do and find it valuable.
Stay or move, I will follow. VE7GYA. I am growing uncomfortable with substack’s approach. Their Staying silent is condoning the racist material. Our society “holds its nose” on so many abhorrent topics. I was just starting to enjoy myself here....
I also agree with your position and I believe there is an option to keep your content free but also to engage people who want to help you defray your costs. You create valuable content and a focal point for a community. Thanks for what you do.
I agree with your position. Substack’s attempt to be neutral on evil in practice, has the effect of creating a permission structure for and supporting evil.
Hate speech is like a cancer in as much as if you don’t try as hard as you can to snuff it out it takes over and kills things. Same thing goes for purposeful misinformation, which may not reach the height of hate speech, but still has the same cancerous effect.
I have no respect for platform creators who want to put no effort into maintaining their platform.
Content moderation is the cost of doing business. Pay the cost or get out of the damn business.
OK folks, thank you for the many ideas and comments, some of which came to me directly instead of through comments here (which is fine with me). I've decided to keep the Substack instance of RandomWire.us alive and to mirror each post at a WordPress.com site. The domain name for the mirror site is propagating now so it may be intermittently up and down for the next day or so. If you are more comfortable visiting somewhere other than Substack, find it at https://cupofradio.com Keeping a mirror site also means content will likely remain up if something happens to the Substack system (you know the saying: one is none and two is one!). Thank you for y our help and patience.
Forgot to mention a couple of options I'm playing with. One is simply mirroring all of my Substack content on a WordPress blog. That is not working particularly well in my testing but I haven't given up on it, particularly as it is the easiest solution for folks who, like me, want their content as free as possible.
The other angle is using Buttondown (https://buttondown.email/). In my test, most of my Substack content was pulled over into Buttondown. See https://buttondown.email/randomwire and click the Archive link. This looks promising.