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Substack doesn't offer exposition, they barely have a discover page https://substack.com/discover which always show the same newsletters

And actually the effect can be negative as, Substack is known to make payment based newsletters, people could avoid those links

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As a consumer, I actually think this approach is great. I think a lot of the issues platforms deal with in terms of making hard decisions around content standards comes down to the fact that they put things in front of the user, and therefore have some responsibility for what you see.

I think the only way you can really have a true "free speech" platform is to make it entirely self-serve. As soon as there is algorithmic content discovery, bad actors will attempt to game it to get their ideas in front of people.

Yeah, whenever I see a submission with xyz.substack.com I get a little nervous about being upsold or “converted”

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