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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by baud147258 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:26AM (#43193735)
> If you as an independent commentator are tied to a centralized platform, you are a feature to be sold, and will be muzzled or deprecated if needed.

Wasn't one selling point of Substack that you could easily leave with your subscribers, so substack writers aren't really for sale and can't be muzzled/deprecated? Or did it change since Substack was launed?

Also are you thinking about specific writer(s)/events when you wrote 'muzzled or deprecated if needed.'?

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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by rurp on Thursday February 27, 2025 @10:18AM (#43195123)
That's still the case. I've seen a few newsletters I follow move off the platform, one of them just a couple weeks ago. I don't like to see them go though because I think Substack is great overall, much better than competing services.
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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by leereeves on Thursday February 27, 2025 @05:36PM (#43199313)
When a newsletter moves off Substack, can they take their incoming links and SEO mojo with them? If so, how does that work?
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