Part of the problem for writers migrating from Substack is losing platform benefits and network effects. A real alternative must be more than just a publishing platform. It needs networks and communities too.
I’m going to continue to talk about building (and migrating to) infrastructure to counter the right wing bullshit machine. Here’s another piece of that. We need good (better?) alternatives to Substack and we need to take our content and eyeballs over to them. (source: Kate Starbird on Bluesky)
