[throwaway894345]

Me too. I’m really not optimistic about the content that Twitter will curate here; I worry that they’ll out-compete substack by peddling their usual outrage addiction, perhaps not right away but in time. The content that one might see on substack will be eventually buried on Twitter in exchange for the content that is most likely to make you click links. Here’s to hoping I’m wrong.

[cabalamat]

Substack seem to me to be genuinely trying to build a better online platform, so I expect they will build a better one (for reasoned debate rather than dopamine-drive outrage) than twitter.

[throwaway894345]

I agree, but I'm not optimistic that "better platform" is sufficient to win. Notably, Twitter's secret sauce is addiction, thus it's inherently difficult for many people to choose the healthier option (at least in a long-term capacity). Moreover, as a platform, Twitter can provide an audience a lot more readily than SubStack. I'm concerned that there's enough of SubStack's model that Twitter can copy without compromising their addiction-peddling business model that they will be able to out-compete SubStack, to the world's detriment.