[posharma]

May be I'm old, but I love long form content and twitter took that away. People write long tweet threads instead of thinking things through and writing it in long form. This gives rise to tons of twitter thread collapsing tools/startups that push the concatenation of these tweets to Notion or whatever. This seems utterly silly to me. It almost looks like tech for the sake of tech. It's unfortunate that substack is going in the same direction. Are there no better problems to solve using tech?

[throwaway5752]

Substack is great for subscription long form content already. It is reliant on Twitter on creating a network for information distribution and curation, though. I don't think Substack is attempting to be more like Twitter - I think Substack needs something like Twitter to sustain the long-form subscription content and this is a defensive move to make sure that Twitter's ongoing collapse doesn't take them out, too.

[dmix]

You still don't see many people using long tweets which is good. I used to despise seeing tweet threads starting with [1/20] for years but Twitter integrating their Threader acquisition via "reader mode" which turns multi-tweet threads into a single page like a blog post really helped solved the UI issue with that (blue feature) but I still tend to avoid threads.