Substack Launches Notes

Substack's Twitter-like feature for shorter posts, called Notes, is launching for everyone on Tuesday. The Verge reports: Substack's Notes will appear in their own separate tab, meaning they'll be separate from the full newsletters you can read in the Inbox tab or the threads you can read in the Chat tab, where you can read newsletters. In a blog post, Substack suggests using Notes to share things like "posts, quotes, comments, images, and links," and there is no character limit, Substack spokesperson Helen Tobin tells The Verge.

Each post can include up to six photos or GIFs, but video isn't supported. Notes you share won't go to subscriber inboxes; they'll just live on the Substack website and app. And you can interact with other Notes with like, reply, and "restack" (retweet) buttons. Within the Notes tab, you can look through two different feeds: "Home" and "Subscribed." "Home" shows notes from writers you subscribe to and "writers they recommend," meaning you'll see notes from people you may not already be familiar with. "Subscribed" only shows notes from people you subscribe to.

Twitter no longer exists

[quonset]

Substack's Twitter-like feature for shorter posts

There is now a shell company called X Corp [marketwatch.com] which houses the remnants of what was Twitter.

But since you no longer mention that pedo guy and the company formerly known as Twitter and its implosion as advertisers flee [marketwatch.com], we wouldn't have known that unless someone pointed it out. Just like we wouldn't have known X, aka Twitter, isn't paying its bills [cnn.com] and daring vendors to sue it.

Substack is just LiveJournal

[OverlordQ]

change my mind

Re: Fun fact

[reanjr]

A couple weeks ago, Taibbi was getting questioned over conspiracy theories that he had been given the "Twitter files" by Musk. Now, he's "selling his soul" to secure Twitter secrets to monetize his platform (even though anything he publishes is instantly available to all mainstream media outlets to re-publish).

Generally if there are such competing narratives over someone, I take that as evidence that someone (Taibbi) is doing the altruistic work of providing truths.

Re:

[Entrope]

Some of the stories he has covered over the past two years:

• an early-2021 interview suggesting Republicans were wrong to attack "Critical Race Theory"
• an interview with Marxist professor Adolph Reed
• covering an attack in Portland on reporter Maranie Staab by Antifa thugs
• reviewing evidence whether Covid vaccines were delayed for political reasons
• an interview with "not right wing" Russell Brand (hint: Brand endorsed Jeremy Corbyn in 2015)
• several items on Black pro-Second Amendment activists (justice for Ahmaud A

Re:

[rsilvergun]

Like I said the guy sold his soul. It's not uncommon in the slightest but somebody who tried to make money off of left-wing journalism to give up and switch to the right wing. Ben shapiro, Matt Walsh, Candice Owens. The list goes on and on where people failed at what they really wanted to do and switched to grifting on the right wing.

Taibbi's problem is the right wing is used him up and he's probably done for. The left wing is going to have anything to do with them. I just leaves real actual journalism

Re:

[rsilvergun]

I'm using Google Text-to-Speech on my phone. Wasn't supposed to be I it was supposed to be it. Matt Taibbi isn't going to be around much longer in journalism. He was heavily dependent on Twitter to drive people to his sub stack site in order to get subscriptions through the sub stack service. He's basically been cut off of Twitter by their CEO.

Ironic thing being he went all day on Twitter's CEO and sold out for it only to be discarded like chewing gum when he was no longer useful. Twitter to drive traff

So it's not hard to harmonize those things

[rsilvergun]

Twitter's CEO gave him information intended to make the CEO of Twitter's enemies look bad but that CEO is frankly incompetent and so is Matt so although Matt was happy to comply with the request and sell out his journalistic integrity the two of them together did such an absolutely terrible job of it that it ended up making Twitter's enemies look good.

This is why the CEO of Twitter is now doing damage control and claiming that what was released is old code and it was just released by mistake.

As for

Re:

[Anonymous Coward]

What a load of fact-free whining from one of Slashdot's resident commie pigs. Asking customers to pay $50/year (or whatever it is) isn't "selling your soul" -- it's more like busking. Lots of Taibbi's subscribers paid long before Musk even offered to buy Twitter, and there's no indication that Twitter was "his primary source of income". Taibbi made his money from Substack before and after the Twitter Files.

Why could you not bring yourself to type the name "Elon Musk", anyway? Did he ban you?

Cool.

[Fly Swatter]

But what is substack?

Its all about nazis

[gitano_dbs]

One Nazi Bar fighting vs another Nazi Bar

Let them fight

Re:

[bill_mcgonigle]

What's with this campaign to diminish the seriousness of Nazism?

Notes?

[FalcDot]

Let's just hope IBM doesn't get involved with this technology...

Re:

[bill_mcgonigle]

Perhaps it will bloom like a beautiful Lotus.

Business model?

[groobly]

Can someone explain to me how Substack contributors can possibly make incomes like they would get from legacy media? Who can pay to subscribe to 100 substacks instead of paying to subscribe to one newspaper with 100 reporters? This seems like it can only be a niche boutique product, and when your subsistence on substack depends on a very small number of benificent payers, we are right back to whoever pays the piper calls the tune.