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If you're still using Substack for your newsletter and want to migrate to Ghost, which has announced that it will join the fediverse this year, here's a step-by-step guide by @wes. It covers costs, what you'll need, setting up Mailgun and Cloudflare, how to move over your posts and subscribers and numerous other helpful details.
#Fediverse #Ghost #Substack #ActivityPub #Newsletter #SubstackMigration
Reclaiming Our News Feeds by Heal Our Culture from Heal Our Culture’s Substack - September 29, 2025
https://healourculture.substack.com/p/reclaiming-our-news-feeds
Pack Your Corporate Social Media Go Bag
If you use #Meta, #Bluesky or #Substack have an escape plan!
As repeatedly demonstrated, corporate platforms are vulnerable. Will you be ready when they inevitably bend to data exploitation, political manipulation and censorship? Has it already started?
Have a plan to evacuate to Public Social Media. Create backup accounts on #Mastodon and #Ghost and use them as secondaries. Be prepared. Begin building your online presence free from corporate overlords.
new startup idea from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz's a16z¹: a tool to let you control thousands of #socialmedia accounts that look "as human as possible"
¹ Owners of large stakes in #Substack, The Privatized Public Square (AKA “X” AKA “The Everything App”), and (soon) #TikTok
#DoubleSpeed #AI #grok #psyop #a16z #MarcAndreessen #SlugsOfA16z #uspol #disinformation #BenHorowitz #nerdreich #broligarchy #broligarchs #X #NetworkState
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a16z-backed DoubleSpeed lets you control 1000s of
social media accounts with Al, ensuring they look as
human as possible - \"never pay a human again\"!
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bh Controlisall you need.
\ GL = \9) The doublespeed TERMINAL allows you to orchestrate
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never pay a human again.
It's never been easier to create and deploy content without human cost.
Stay up to date with changes and strategies in our community.
(Join Discord )
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"The 'Why I’m Leaving Substack' post is the new 'Goodbye to All That,'” writes Sarah Scrier for NiemanLab. Some top newsletter writers — including Anne Helen Petersen, Lyz Lenz, and Virginia Sole-Smith — have left Substack for Patreon. Email delivery issues, poor technical support and an overemphasis on social features were reasons for their departure. Both Petersen and Lenz also referenced Substack's platforming of Nazis and hate speech in their farewell notes. Here's more.
#Media #News #Publishing #Substack #Patreon #Newsletters #LyzLenz #AnneHelenPetersen #VirginiaSoleSmith
Updates to Federated Reader on 5 Nov 2025: "Inbox Alchemy via Vibe Coding"
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/11/04/inbox-alchemy-via-vibe-coding/
#Substack #vibecoding #coding #HealOurCulture #Claude #AI #ChatGPT #edtechSR #MediaLit #edtech
#authors, #writers, #writingcommunity, #gamedevs, #gamedevelopers #gamingcommunity, #artists #contentcreators! Is there anyone here who is on #substack? I'd be more than happy to #connect!
https://substack.com/@myhauger
Check out my latest blog post, “Fact Check Substack with a Superprompt”
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/11/30/fact-check-substack-with-a-superprompt/
s/o @mikecaulfield for the #SIFTtoolbox!
#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #FactCheck #AI #Superprompt #Charlotte #ICE #CBP #protest #Substack
There is a Fediverse alternative to #Substack called #Ghost.
Ghost is now compatible with the Fediverse. It's not just a feed, Ghost-powered sites can take part in discussions with Mastodon etc accounts, the follows work in both directions etc.
There's a guide to using Ghost-powered sites on the Fediverse here:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-fediverse-on-your-ghost-powered-site
Some Ghost-powered sites to follow at:
➡️ https://fedi.directory/tag/ghost
(Copy-paste an address into the search box in Mastodon to follow.)
srsly gtf off #substack and join the evolution with @buttondown (hi @jmduke) or https://ghost.org/about/(hi @johnonolan)
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/113913686353464859
So, I hate, hate, hate, the Guardian, and I think they have some of the worst editors in existence, but still, this is worth sharing. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters #Substack
Stop using #Substack, especially if you write, and goddamn it, especially if you write supposedly #antifascist content or in any way think of yourself as opposition to the rise of #antifascism in any country.
I use #Ghost and I can vouch for it, but there are other options, too.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters
My small list of Critiques Against Substack.https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250425/ #Substack
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I just can't Substack. Sorry not sorry.
Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found.
Has about 50 million users worldwide.
Substack takes about 10% of the revenue the newsletters make. About 5 million people pay for access to newsletters on its platform.
#Substack #Nazis #Racist #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters
It honestly is infinitely all kinds of sad that I syndicate my blog posts to Facebook, no external link, and everyone eats it up, but if I send someone a link to my website via SMS or something, I get, "Do you publish these on Facebook? Can I just read you on Facebook or Substack? I don't get why you made your own website. Strange."
I get it that my layout isn't for everybody but that's why I don't block reader mode. That's why I have full text RSS. I give *you* the choice but this only seems to alien people *more* not less.
I cannot tell you how so many people actually want to read my things on a closed platform. I’m the exact opposite. I love personal blogs, RSS, and alike, but average readers, I’m noticing, want to read things on closed platforms. Not all of them of course, but enough for me to have to syndicate my work to close platforms to keep an audience
The problem of #Substack is old: "Launched in 2017, the platform has previously faced criticism for hosting newsletters that promote #extremist views. Its co-founder, Hamish McKenzie addressed its decision to host #Nazi content in one of his own posts on the site in 2023."
But now #algorithms even promote it! "Substack #algorithm directed the Guardian’s account to 21 other profiles featuring similar content." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters
In this week's net.wars, "Cautionary tales", I consider becoming a child for the purposes of age verification, and Substack becomes a unicorn. Dare we predict enshittification? https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/07/18/cautionary-tales/ #NetWars #OnlineSafetyAct #AgeVerification #Substack #VentureCapital #HumanRights
#Substack is hosting, monetising and promoting Nazi blogs (https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/114939115888742842). Substack's CEO admitted this back in 2023 (https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/substack-nazi-content-policies-controversy/).
If you are still using Substack, it is time to leave.
You might want to try #Ghost, a free open source self-hostable alternative to Substack (more info: https://ghost.org/vs/substack/). If you don't self-host, you can sign up at https://ghost.org
Ghost has Fediverse support in testing, Ghost users can sign up at https://activitypub.ghost.org
About that #Substack toot I published earlier: it made me feel uncomfortable to have it up without tagging the journalist (so she couldn't see what we were discussing). I had not tagged her on purpose because she complains of being called out about choosing to stay on Substack.
What is the right way to hold that discussion? I don't know. So I deleted the post.
An excerpt from my (now deleted toot): "Maybe it's just me, but I believe that the tech we use sends an important message about our values and the causes we support. Everything is politics now. Including our tech stack."
So later this week I will publish an article on my blog about *my own* tech stack, how everything is politics now and how I think the platforms we use should reflect our values. It will be linked at the bottom of every blog post I will publish from now on, in a sort of: "disclaimer: here is the tech stack I use" way.
Related: https://news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like/
Wishing everyone a lovely day 🌞
People, please don't use #SubStack
Please use #Ghost
https://ghost.org
You can let your site be hosted by Ghost or even better..
..self-host!
Setting up a site is super easy and you can even use membership features like I do here: https://stux.me/membership/
For every platform with a shady CEO there is a self-hosted alternative that is waaay better
#FOSS FTW!