It seems #Substack is currently a target of #Musk's idiotic anti-media slant on #Twitter. The dumpster fire burns brightly these days, having escalated since April Fools, which seems to have been a Fool's Power-Up, I guess, cuz Skum just can't stop being an ass.
#ArsTechnica has an article on why this may be happening to Substack right now.
@FernLovebond I'm happy with Substack. The problem is I've been on the Internet so long, seen the new paradise become the old hell so many times, I'm suspicious of how happy I am at Substack. Already wondering how many years I get before it falls apart.
@weirdfizz @FernLovebond If Der Muskenführer gets it into that 💩 filled head of his to buy the platform, give it less than a year before he runs it into the ground, like he's trying to do with Twitter. 😑
@POOetryma @FernLovebond Even without getting into political possibilities, there was just a lot going on behind the scenes with the bird app. Not saying it can't happen, but hoping it's highly unlikely that would be pulled off again. But there's always somebody with too much money and crap ethics out there.
@weirdfizz Twitter was never profitable and was never meant to be. It's simply not designed to be a vehicle for ads. Users can simply scroll past them without stopping to look or they can block & mute them, thus rendering them useless. The only way it'll ever even dream of making money is to make it a pay-only site, but doing so will kill it as most users flee for free platforms. Twitter is old school internet, when most social media sites cared more about the users than money.
@weirdfizz
Yeah, I hear that. I know the cycle well, and can start with the trouble I had maintaining a decent page on Angelfire and GeoCities.
Flame wars with AOL-twerps on a LISTSERV about why HotMail would be the choice to have, and why Netscape Navigator totally kicked Internet Explorer's ass.
And how it felt like a let down when Facebook no longer required a .edu email to sign up, & all those MySpace dicks were going to ruin everything.
Okay, I'm done for now.