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by pembrook 3 hours ago
Substack is free because you act as a growth/distribution engine for them.

They plaster your emails with ads to download their app and will even email your list whenever they feel like it and when you leave they will still email your list substack-related content and offers.

When someone subscribed via the app btw, they own that person, not you.

If you’re okay with that trade off, fine, but I thought we learned this lesson about the trap of “free” with the social media companies before…