Substack is the real Twitter/X replacement?

Posted by antelopetracks on Saturday November 23, 2024 @01:10AM
from the workingtheorys.com dept.

https://www.workingtheorys.com/p/thoughts-for-sale

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Re:Substack is the real Twitter/X replacement? by jrflowers on Saturday November 23, 2024 @02:35AM (#42219678)

I like that variations of the word “intellectual” appear 13 times on this page

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Re:Substack is the real Twitter/X replacement? by wholehog on Saturday November 23, 2024 @01:14AM (#42219469)

But how am I supposed to doomscroll on Substack?

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Re:Substack is the real Twitter/X replacement? by antelopetracks on Saturday November 23, 2024 @01:20AM (#42219475)

There’s a short Notes feature now which mimics Twitter (Substck links got banned from Twitter after they released the feature)

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Re:Substack is the real Twitter/X replacement? by antelopetracks on Saturday November 23, 2024 @01:20AM (#42219478)

Not enough content to doomscroll yet but seems better than direct copycats in long run

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Re:Substack is the real Twitter/X replacement? by rvz on Saturday November 23, 2024 @01:25AM (#42219488)

No it is not.

Bluesky already matches the old Twitter experience, enough to be a true 1:1 Twitter replacement for many users to migrate to.

If you use Twitter, then you have learned 90% how to use Bluesky already.

Other than that or Threads, the rest (including Substack) are not even close. UX familiarity is the point.

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Re:Substack is the real Twitter/X replacement? by rsynnott on Saturday November 23, 2024 @09:11AM (#42220949)

I mean, (a) see Betteridge's Law of Headlines, but (b) I think this illustrates a common confusion about Twitter. Twitter was many things to many people. If you used it mainly to consume the ramblings of self-important bloviators, then, yeah, substack might be a substitute, but that’s not what everyone used it for.

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