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Re:Substack Outage by ScottyAdams0 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:02PM (#34085664)
Umm maybe it’s the fact substack is outright paying for traffic and lying about it? It’s just their own paid influencers who use it.
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Re:Substack Outage by naasking on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:08PM (#34085742)
Where are they lying about it? They openly admit to paying writers. And no, it's not "just" their influencers using it.
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Re:Substack Outage by Veen on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:59PM (#34086309)
Perhaps I'm a bit old-fashioned, but paying writers to write doesn't seem like a particularly nefarious activity to me. I mean, I believe the NYT does it too, and a few other organizations.
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