[jaspax]

The difference, I think, is that nobody goes to "Substack", they go to particular people on Substack. The existence of low-quality stuff on Substack doesn't have any impact on me at all, since I never see it and don't have to interact with it.

I suppose there is someone out there who actually browses the Substack front page, but this is very far from being the dominant mode for substack content.

[sofixa]

Isn't it literally the same with Medium? People go to Medium posts from Google and co, and maybe subscribe to a specific Medium poster. Medium tries to do recommendations "since you've read X you might like Y" which are fine, but i doubt many people go to Medium.

[OrderlyTiamat]

> the Substack front page

I wasn't even aware there was such a thing, all substack content I consume I found organically. I'm sure it's much the same for the majority of their readers.