Am I missing out?

  • socsa@piefed.social
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    54 minutes ago

    It’s live journal for tryhards and pseudointellectuals.

    Don’t get me wrong, there’s good stuff on there as well, but it’s mostly just the newest “every opinion has an asshole” platform.

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      59 minutes ago

      And the first part is why a lot of content creators are on it.

      At a certain point, a blog becomes more than a hobby. When that happens, a platform like Substack helps people transition the hobby to a job

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    It’s a place for twitter users to roleplay as intellectual essayists (okay some of them are totally worthwhile tbf) because twitter itself is designed for sharing brainfarts rather than cognizant thoughts

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      6 hours ago

      Really wish these articles could reference the supposed antisemitic blogs. Pretty interesting what happens when you actually follow up on this stuff.

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          5 hours ago

          Did you even read the article?

          Here’s an excerpt:

          [A] phenomenon that is often pointed to as a sign of rising danger for Jews, and why antisemitism is treated as uniquely important, is the supposed increase in far-right rhetoric and politics becoming public, including among mainstream politicians in the West. But the reality is that this fascist revival directs its actual structural power elsewhere. In the United States, top-down rhetoric from political leaders and right-wing media targets immigrants, especially those from Latin America, and Muslims, often framing them as cultural threats or security risks. These narratives translate directly into policy: immigration enforcement that tears families apart, mass deportations, detention centers, and the 2017 “Muslim Ban” barring entry from several Muslim-majority countries. Training for the New York Police Department categorized the Keffiyah and watermelon as “antisemitic symbols.”

          Jews, by contrast, are primarily targeted by racist individuals and small extremist groups on the far-right fringes, actors who operate largely outside of formal politics and hold little to no systemic power. While antisemitic rhetoric can and does surface in speeches or coded references to “globalists,” this remains qualitatively different from the institutional, top-down marginalization inflicted on Muslims, immigrants, and other minorities. Random social media influencers do not have the same structural reach as a government writing discrimination into law. For Jews, far-right hostility is mainly a matter of words; for others, it is a matter of law.

          Jews do not suffer from police brutality, housing discrimination (redlining), employment bias, underfunded public services, wage gaps, mass incarceration, an unjust legal system, etc.

          Modern antisemitism primarily exists as rhetorical criticism and occasional violent attacks like synagogue shootings. These incidents, while tragic, do not equate to systemic oppression. True antisemitism is a minor issue compared to the structural racism faced by Black people, Indigenous peoples, immigrants, Muslims, Palestinians, and other racial minorities and colonized peoples worldwide.

          Some people point to FBI statistics that show Jewish people over-represented in religion-based hate crimes as evidence of widespread antisemitism and systemic oppression. But a few key things need to be clarified as this is not a strong argument for antisemitism supposedly being a rampant, pressing issue as it may seem.

          First, religion-based hate crimes make up only about 20% of total reported hate crimes between 2020 and 2025. Race / ethnicity-based hate crimes make up over 55% of the total.

          Second, this is just ‘reported’ hate crimes. Studies have shown that trust of the police differs significantly among different groups of people, with white people being far more likely than Black or Hispanic people to initiate contact with the police. Within the US, a staggering 92% of Jews identify as white; with a significant portion of the remainder still identifying as white and another race. Other religious minority groups largely belong to non-White demographics, hence they’re less likely to approach the police than White people.

          It should be noted that this same FBI data also shows that there are more cases of Anti-White hate crime reported than Anti-Hispanic / Latino hate crime within the same period, which further proves that this data is heavily skewed and that white people are more comfortable engaging with law enforcement. It should also be noted that for Anti-Black and Anti-Hispanic / Latino hate crimes, assaults make up 34% and 53% of total reported crimes by type respectively, compared to only 10% for the reported Anti-Jewish hate crime incidents, with the vast majority being destruction / damage / vandalism of property and intimidation. In a document from November 2024, the explicitly Zionist WJC stated that “While not explicitly adopting the IHRA definition, the FBI classifies antisemitism under the broader category of bias-motivated hate crimes, aligning with the principles of the IHRA definition.”

          Wow very scary and antisemitic right? 🤣

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              5 hours ago

              Just so we’re clear, you think a guy that writes about systemic racism and named Tariq Acknickulous is a Nazi?

              Bruh 🤣

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                No I’m calling anyone on a platform that funds Nazis willing supporters.

                I don’t click substack links the same way I don’t click on Twitter links. They prop up the Nazi platforms and keep them legitimate.

                He’s better off deleting his account on the Nazi table and heading to alternatives if he truly gave a shit. But he won’t because they give him scraps to keep their Nazi platform running

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                  lol you are such a fake. You participate in platforms that host Nazis all the damn time. Get a grip dude. You pay taxes to Nazis on the daily, and that’s not even the start of it.

                  Not to mention Substack is used by fucking everyone. Calling it a “Nazi platform” is pure mental illness 🤣

  • gustofwind@lemmy.world
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    It’s just a blog platform and most of the people on it seem to be crazy or racist

    They also try to call their blog posts “articles” and pretend substack isn’t just a blog platform for crazies

  • √𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.world
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    6 hours ago

    More junk stalkerware getting pushed. Try putting up a DNS white list (default blocking) firewall and then try white listing their servers. There are many many connections required to make it work and most make no logical sense. You’re running a ton of stalkerware junk in the background. Trusting that BS is a mistake IMO. Like if you need it for some reason, a virtual machine or separate hardware device and network are pragmatic.

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I’m not sure which content creators you’re referring to specifically or what you consider sudden but Substack has been around for a few years. Don’t know much about the subscription side other than the fact that authors can put content behind a paywall and make money off it. If you’re seeing people in a particular hobby or niche interest jumping aboard, it could be a follow-the-leader sort of thing where a few people found success there and now the rest want a piece of the pie.

    Hard to say whether you’re missing out since your experience will be heavily dependent upon your interests and the quality of available content catering to those interests. Nothing’s stopping you from taking a look and deciding whether it’s your kind of place though.

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    6 hours ago

    There got to be enough money involved in blogging that someone finally succeeded in replacing it with a convenient, easy, well-advertised platform that they could enshittify and extract maximum profits from.

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    6 hours ago

    It’s not yet in its enshittification phase, so right now it seems like a good deal. But before you know it, blog posts there will be blocked by all kinds of overlays and whatnot, like they are on Medium these days.

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    5 hours ago

    It seems to be a way for people to have a paywalled blog without building their own website.