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by _Algernon_ 1282 days ago
Doubt you could do that in a way where you'd attract users at the level of Substack.
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You could if you gave people $400-500k to move over.
If my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bike.
They only pay $3500 and it comes with a big NDA.
They were fronting people 250k+ for their first year. IIRC
Umm maybe it’s the fact substack is outright paying for traffic and lying about it? It’s just their own paid influencers who use it.
Perhaps I'm a bit old-fashioned, but paying writers to write doesn't seem like a particularly nefarious activity to me. I mean, I believe the NYT does it too, and a few other organizations.
Where are they lying about it? They openly admit to paying writers. And no, it's not "just" their influencers using it.