No Place For Nazis… Substack Is On The Wrong Side Of History

Nazis! I hate Nazis! Most of us do. Maybe even Substack’s founders, but not enough for them to de-platform the Nazis that have setup shop on the platform.

As you can see I’ve moved Marketing Junto off Substack.

This is the same reason I’m off of Twitter, I don’t want to be around a platform that doesn’t do the right thing, or follow it’s own content policies, and instead gives these horrible people and ideas a platform to spread.

Many will say that Substack is starting to remove some far-right, Nazi publications from their service, for me it’s too little to late.

From Ghost To Substack To WordPress

I moved from Ghost to Substack to get more exposure and have a social element to Marketing Junto. For the most part, it worked. But I don’t want to share my sandbox with horrible, reprehensible people.

Substack was/is a place where people can go to write newsletters for free. Once the writer decides to charges, Substack take a 10% commission on each subscription. That seems fair, but you have no say in who else is with you on Substack. That includes Nazis.

For the vast majority of us, journalists and writers, we want nothing to do with Nazis and their ideology. We just want to write our posts and share them with our readers.

Like advertisers on Twitter/X, we don’t want our content sharing space with horrid views. By staying on Substack, writers are supporting a company that apparently only gives lip service to those who are concerned, and has no problem taking money from these barbarians.

What’s The Next Move?

If Substack cleans up its act, and the journalists and writers I want to follow stay on the platform, I’ll continue to subscribe to content over there.

But if Substack keeps going down this path, I’m going to be forced to cancel all my paid subscriptions as I don’t want to support Substack.

I know this mentality, in the near-term, hurts the writers, but they’re choosing to stay despite what’s going on. So, maybe this will make it so they decide to leave the sandbox and take their toys to a new place.

What do you think about this whole fiasco? Hit reply and let me know your thoughts.

Web Jawn

• Why Substack is at a crossroads
  I’m no longer on Substack. It needs to pick a lane and stop recommending certain newsletter. It can’t be hands off anymore.
• Publish Nazi newsletters on your platform, Substack, and you will rightly be damned
  More on Substack’s choice to not de-platform Nazis. This time they’ve hit the mainstream press. This doesn’t look good.
• X Announces Lower-Cost Verification for Organizations Package To Lure SMBs
  X is trying to raise money. But who the heck wants to be associated with that cesspool?
• Reddit Aims for 2024 IPO at $15B Valuation
  Reddit really ruined itself in 2023 with its API pricing fiasco, which shut down popular 3rd party apps and made the Internet lose its collective mind. How they plan on getting $15 billion is beyond me.
• X Needs an Actual CEO To Get It Back on Track
  I think it’s too late. And the current CEO has done more harm than good. I predict that Twitter is gone by the end of 2024.
• Threads Moves to Next Stage of Testing for Its API
  This could be very helpful for Social Media managers. I’m sure those who like Threads will be pissed when the tools arrive, because then comes the surfacy content that has no personality and influencers.
• What’s next for Mozilla?
  It will be interesting to see what Mozilla comes up with next.
• The Grumpy Designer’s Guide to 2024
  Eric Karkovack is one of my favorite bloggers. He’s prolific and quite good. This piece isn’t and different. Many of his predictions might actually happen.
• NYT sues OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement
  This not the start or the end of cases like this with AI companies conveniently forgetting that copyright applies to them as well.
• Beyond SEO: John Mueller On AI-Generated Images & Stock Photography
  Seems obvious, but maybe not to some.
• Top Trends & Predictions for News SEO in 2024 by the Top SEO Experts
  Let the predictions begin for SEO in 2024!
• InVision design collaboration services shutdown
  Wow, this is big. Could be that Figma is eating their lunch or just other economic factors. But sad to see a cool app go away.
• Android users could soon replace Google Assistant with ChatGPT
  This could be really cool.
• Google is allowing select sites to delay phase out of third-party cookies
  What possibly could go wrong?
• TikTok launches new ad performance measurement tools
  This looks really cool and useful for those who are advertising on TikTok.

Until next week! Keep rocking it!

-Seth