Substack—and the surviving blogs that aren’t on Substack—are still going strong, and I don’t think they’re going to go away. Maybe Substack as a platform might decline the way Medium has. But the “Eternal September” types are usually either functionally illiterate or don’t like long form reading, and social media is increasingly optimized for those people. If you actually take the effort to write down your thoughts in text, you end up filtering for people intelligent and diligent enough to choose the written word even when video and photo content is readily available.

> If you actually take the effort to write down your thoughts in text, you end up filtering for people intelligent and diligent enough to choose the written word

Interesting point. But, ChatGPT/AI summarization and Tiktok-style speech-to-text that the "Eternal September" perferrers are being trained to eat up.

What is your thoughts on that altering the dynamic?

I don’t think that alters the dynamic much. There isn’t much point generating low quality long form text content for the Eternal September crowd because they’ll just ignore it anyway. The filtering is on the consumer side, not on the producer side.

Substack (together with Medium) appears to be the blogosphere. As usual, venture capitalists managed to take over an open protocol and turn it into a singular product.

Surprised you lumped Medium in with Substack. I always associate Medium with C-tier tech tutorials at best these days.

I've read some A-tier libertarian noir novellas on there.

> A-tier libertarian

It's been a while since I've seen an oxymoron as perfect as this one.

They are both neoblog platforms.