This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating.

[djsumdog@djsumdog.com]

The word is used so much it literally has no meaning, no one gives a fuck and if you don't like it, don't read it or pay for it. In 2024 Substack claimed to have banned 5 "Nazi" blogs (whatever the fuck that means) but they didn't mention which ones and I can't find any actual information on it, so it might have been a fake PR-stunt. I would like to know what those sites actually were and see the archives to decide for myself.

But I decided from that point I would never pay for something on Substack because they either censored some sites or created a fake censorship story as some PR stunt. Both are stupid.

But personally, I want to read the books everyone else wants to burn.

[brood@mas.to]

@ben
also note their support and partnership with CBS killing and Trump quisling Bari Weiss's "The Free Press", a right wing reactionary publication.

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-announcement-bari-weiss-free-press

[jmcrookston@mastodon.social]

@ben thank you

[mewsleah@meow.social]

@ben might be the first time it's been documented in a national newspaper though

[mewsleah@meow.social]

@kirakira @ben substack owners: ohh but Nazi money is just so good tho

[gabbywheels@toad.social]

@ben Not just nazis but supports/inflates member counts, perhaps even funnels money to crunchy mom influencer accounts like Jessica Reed Kraus who worked through out 2034 to get Trump elected. Background on this is insidious. She's just a tool but what mechanisms behind the scenes enabled her at substack?

https://www.reddit.com/r/HouseOnFire/

[sebastian@mastodon.com.pl]

@ben That was one of the reasons, why I left this walled garden.

[lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz]

I followed that.

Some people were publicly upset that "terfs" were "platformed" on Substack. Then lo and behold shortly after, rumors started screaming about "Nazis".

Substack took it seriously, and did an investigation and found 5 accounts with no subscribers which were white supremacist.

I took note of which accounts signed the petition to investigate the Nazis, and unsubscribed from their stacks (I'm only a free subscriber anyway). I don't need to read the gullible.

[mrsaturday@shitposter.world]

@djsumdog It's easy to see how it's a slippery slope to them just removing whatever they want whenever they want, but people like @ben are so used to it only being things they agree with, that they cheerlead it. We've seen what happens when the people wearing the boot stopped respecting the tongue on the laces in Minneapolis, but some people aren't able to come to the conclusion that enabling paternalistic powers-that-be can come back to hurt them, unfortunately.

[nat@kind.social]

@FediThing @ben I ended up using buttondown and I like it so far! Substack is also WILDLY expensive with their massive 10% cut.