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Zach Jordan's avatar

I think your point about Substack Notes is strong - a lot of the reason people follow commentators on twitter is to see the conversation you reference. If anything, I think getting the crowd that's moved to mastodon on mastodon is a good thing; the 'interest' accounts I followed there are good on their own, and mostly unrelated to and disconnected from the commentariat-and-journo crowd I'm also interested in reading.

It's really funny to me that everything Elon has done has sorta forced his main *ad* audiences off twitter, to the benefit of his fanbase, and also improved conditions on the new platforms for the various diaspora communities. Of course this is disastrous for Twitter's business prospects, which even more underscores the way Elon and a lot of elites misunderstand everything about the communities that get built around (groups of) elites by 'normies'

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Michael's avatar

Josh, can you please explain what the advantages are of being on Substack Notes vs. just following discussions here on your website (and on serioustrouble.show, of course)? I've never been on or had any interest in Twitter <gasp!>, so I can't compare Substack Notes to it, or for that matter, to anything else. Apologies, I'm not REALLY a Luddite...

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