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Re:Now live for all: Substack Notes by LordDragonfang on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:36PM (#35529321)
>This notes thing looks like an attempt to pivot to an advertising based business model

The announcement for the feature on twitter[1] literally emphasizes the lack of ads, pointing out subs are their revenue source, so that would be some 4D enshittification chess.

[1] https://twitter.com/hamishmckenzie/status/164362995302659686...

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Re:Now live for all: Substack Notes by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:43PM (#35529431)
> announcement for the feature on twitter literally emphasizes the lack of ads

Guessing that’s now how they’ll pitch it to an acquirer once it takes off.

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