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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.
Another push to get people off #substack is prompting IT professionals to write posts about how easy it is to set up your own site.
I beg you to stop. You are not helping. People are reading your posts and thinking 'that seems really complicated... I can' t do that'.
Every single post about self-hosting is literally that Simpsons gag about fixing the foundations to your own house "And if you don't have ceramic stuck-o-lath then aluminium stuck-o-lath will work just as well!"
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\"!
7 ee
S 9 N—7
Z 4 oW = SF
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bh Controlisall you need.
\ GL = \9) The doublespeed TERMINAL allows you to orchestrate
Y IN @7/X actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk
<i \"ey content creation and deployment
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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
I just saw the first bumble bee! Tiny insects are flying again. This is the time to come out of my hibernation modus and write more about #nature. I talk about #snails, and as they are still in their protection places, reflect on Homo-not-so-sapiens: https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/28951404-a41f-4215-ab89-bc35dbc41233
You can subscribe to my free #Newsletter: https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/newsletter/sign_up ( #substack free #EuropeanAlternative )
#NatureMatchCuts #gastropods #sciComm #natureLovers #springVibes #journalism #factCheck #biology #biodiversity
#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
On the occasion of my birthday yesterday, I put up something on my #Substack blog about what I'm feeling, what I'm hoping for, what I'd like to see
https://open.substack.com/pub/richmagahiz/p/six-and-sixty-and-a-day?r=gnwin&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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.)
What is it about #Substack that seems to make it irreplaceable, even for some of the most progressive voices ?
srsly gtf off #substack and join the evolution with @buttondown (hi @jmduke) or https://ghost.org/about/(hi @johnonolan)
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/113913686353464859
Part two in a series of articles about the inspiration and research behind my upcoming #historicalfiction novel, Westerland (August 2026). This episode describes the #timeteam origins, and how that #archaeology programme contributed to the story with evidence, history and themes
https://rophillips.substack.com/the-broken-pot
#books #romanbritain
#scribesandmakers #writingcommunity #substack #archeology
@bookstodon
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
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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
I'm giving out FREE 6- month subscriptions to my #substack, "Marlarotica" for the first 10 people on Mastadon to send me their email addresses.
My #erotica spans many genres from silly and vanilla to dark and kinky. Short form and long form written pieces with audio and GIFs.
I'm just getting started on substack after 20 years as a ghostwriter and phone #domme and I get discouraged if I'm writing to no one, so send your email address to samantha@smutmag.com and I'll get you on the list!
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
Wondering if Mastodon is really the right space for me. Even with 10,000 characters, my last post still felt cramped. I have so much to say, and trying to pour that into any fixed container is a challenge. Perhaps Substack suits my long-form tendencies better. Is lengthy content considered poor etiquette here? Genuinely curious what others think.
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 🌞