How Has Substack Changed Since Summer 2024?
Taking stock.
I am in the midst of writing a piece that I cannot possibly finish in time for today. However, since I am committed to providing steady content to you, my lovely readers, I just checked through my drafts to see if there was something quick I could post.
I ran across my unpublished draft, from a year ago almost to the day, of that “My Substack Summer” feature that made the rounds in the summer of ‘24. Obviously, it is out of date now (and you can find it, unedited, below), but it does give us the opportunity to take stock of how things have changed on this platform in the year since.
What has your experience been? If you are a publisher, have you grown, or have you been undergoing the unprecedented reversal of growth reported by so many? As a reader, do you find that the quality of the platform has improved or declined?
What do you think of the trend of disgraced leftists losing their mainstream jobs and then immediately coming to Substack, sycophants in tow, to continue soiling themselves here? How long before Jimmy Kimmel oozes his way on over and starts sucking up more algorithmic oxygen?1
Feel free to share your thoughts. Talk among yourselves, and I will reply later, after I am done writing tomorrow’s big post.
Highlights
☕ I read the most in the morning
💌 I subscribed to 28 new Substacks
🎧 I listened to 37 minutes of podcasts
📽️ I watched 110 minutes of video
❤️ I liked 166 posts
💬 I left 2,318 comments on posts
📜 I scrolled 190 meters in Notes
🕵️ I discovered 92 new posts via Notes
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Share your own Summer Recap
You can see your own summer recap in the Substack app. I’d love to see what you’ve been reading.
He is free to do so, and Substack is free to welcome him. That is as it should be. But there may be algorithmic manipulation going on behind the scenes to reward people like him and ghettoize people like us, as has been widely discussed among us of late.
If there was a real journalist out there, after Chuck Schumer, on the floor of the senate, said President Trump actually pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimball’s show, of which there is no evidence just speculation, they made it up, why was Chuck Schumer ok when then President Biden, certainly with mountains of paper trails and evidence to prove and corroborate it, coerced all social media to block remove and ban any mention of the dangers of the COVID experimental injections, or the veracity of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop, the stolen 2020 election, or the governments involvement with January 6th. Why did Schumer not object then to the “behavior of a dictator”? As he called it. They have no evidence that Trump called anyone they just made it up. But Biden ordered social media to censor all information on the Covid jabs, H Biden’s laptop, the stolen election, and January 6th. Mountains of evidence, receipt after receipt, text message after text message, even staffers corroborating the story they ordered big tech to censor these stories. Schumer not only didn’t object he spread the lies and the censorship. This is why people no longer care about their lies and their cover ups. No one’s buying their bull shit any more. We don’t care what they have to say any more. Their days of political cultural power are over!
Why thank you kind, sir. For opening the floor to all of us, that is.
In my experience it’s been a disaster since Substack evolved into what appears to be Twitter 2.0.
the allure of being on Substack when we were all first publishing is we were not bound to an algorithm. Whoever we heard from was who we intentionally just decided to subscribe to.
We also came here because we were getting censored everywhere else. I came here for freedom of speech and freedom of reach bc it’s the same thing— algorithms prioritize brain rot content, and down rank anything that could be considered dissident, subversive or just not rage bait.
So since we have evolved into an algorithmic app, since everybody is now here to post 1 billion brain rot click bait notes per day, which is definitely the Twitter/X crowd, I think it’s a shit show and I personally am working on getting a Patreon set up so I can switch.
There is a lot of power and much less noise when we actually have the freedom to speak directly to one another, once that’s out the window there’s no point to any of this.
In regards to the leftists on here, they were already here. I think that’s also when the app went to shit is when so many of them protested Elon Musk taking over Twitter and most of them came here.
A lot of opportunists who just want attention came here as well - they saw it as a new frontier where they might have a shot at being some sort of online influencer, and that made interactions and content on this app incredibly disingenuous.
I don’t wanna waste time commenting on leftists being on this app or Jimmy Kimmel, I could give a fuck and they can all burn in hell.
Jimmy Kimmel was on his show saying that anybody who didn’t take the Covid jab should be denied healthcare in this country. The same left were calling for us to be put in concentration camps and now they’re all congregating talking about how people who vote conservatively or republican should all be murdered and in some places of the Internet, they’re planning these things. There’s a difference between freedom of speech and criminal behavior.