There is a glitch in Substack’s comment section. I can’t put my finger on it but there is something weird happening and as a guy who stays up on technology, this is wrong.
90 days ago Substack was humming along.
Now it seems there is a glitch in the system where some of my subscribers can’t even play the videos I simply place within the “notes” and “comments” sections of this platform.
Let me know if this is happening to you.
Thank you for being here.
Big Tech is getting stranger by the day.
Onward and Upward,
~Mitch
Here is the channel where I found this video. Excellent commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/@pagemelt
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A Substacker over on Reddit posted this commentary and it caught my eye so I thought I would share it with all of you here.
Trying to gain Substack Subscribers is so cringe and often a futile effort these days
“Is anyone else tired of the incessant amount of writers kissing ass with each other (thanks to the advent of Notes) under the guise of “forming community”, getting others to engage with your posts and subscribe to you? I’m sure some of these actions are genuine but majority is lip service. And what grown adults have time for this kind of time investment—especially when the vast majority of us are not making any living wage off of our writings? You can keep churning out your toxic positivity posts but I say the ROI on this method is nil. Is one hour engaging on this platform and subscribing to several Substacks worth only ONE ((unpaid)) Subscriber or follower in return? I don't think so. Juice is not worth the squeeze, as they say.
It all feels like this undercurrent of fake humility. I don’t have time to engage with people on there because I am too busy writing books or my next Substack post, working on my art or working my side job in order to support myself. Dare I say that I am tired of the "building your community" trope. Substack needs to implement a better system so writers are not tethered to the app in order to build their audience--which has become such a desperate rat race.
If Twitter and LinkedIn had a baby it would be Notes. Cringy—and I feel cringe myself when I have to partake in these charades of pithy quotes, commentary and goody2shoe virtue signaling. I came to Substack to create long-form journalism, not invest my time in Notes and interacting with others. I know that sounds very Scrooge like (but 'Tis the season, right?) but somebody needs to call out the BS. I think so many of these people that "grew" their Substack from nothing are holding back from telling the masses something else is missing from the recipe. I don't know what that is but I'm getting off this merry-go-round of motivational and inspirational content. Telling me "5 easy steps to grow from 0 to 1000!" is not engagement bait anymore--it's repellent. I. Am. So. Over. It.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/Substack/comments/1h4949s/trying_to_gain_substack_subscribers_is_so_cringe/
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