[rectang]

> Most importantly, that means that if writers choose to leave Substack, they won’t be able to port their paid subscriptions over to another platform like they could previously.

That seems like a big change.

Having to abide by Apple’s user-friendly subscription and cancellation policies is small potatoes, compared to vendor lock-in of the subscriptions.

[politelemon]

This is either misunderstanding it or interpreting in bad faith. The very next sentence explains why this is a bad thing. They aren't escaping vendor lock in, they're being moved to something worse.

[rectang]

????

Didn’t I affirm the author’s point that the increased vendor lock-in for creators was a big deal, implicitly agreeing that it was bad?

By “Apple’s user-friendly subscription and cancellation policies”, I mean e.g. the ability to unsubscribe without having to fight through the usual dark patterns. Having to offer that shouldn’t be onerous, although sadly some publishers see it that way.

I can accept that I may not have communicated my point as well as I might have, but “bad faith”, wtf?