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Re:I Grew My Substack from 439 to 451 Free Subscribers in Ju... by allium on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:04AM (#39369340)
It was always hard, but it used to be possible. These days, though, you have to compete for visibility against people who are as good at manipulation as you are at actually doing stuff.

Platform capitalism has made the “idiot box” age of TV downright civilized in comparison—at least they didn’t eat Tide pods in the trash cable era.

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Re:I Grew My Substack from 439 to 451 Free Subscribers in Ju... by Andrex on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:30AM (#39369525)
Maybe not, but what generation added all the "caution: do not eat" labels to everything in the first place? Hmm...
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Re:I Grew My Substack from 439 to 451 Free Subscribers in Ju... by rchaud on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:51AM (#39370396)
Ypu can throw generative AI/LLM summarization into that heap as well. Previously, juicing one's numbers for platform visibility meant churning out content in a labour-intensive manner. Now, there's no limit to how much marketing garbage they can spew out to try to catch every stray eyeball.
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