Substack’s success shows readers have had enough of polarised media

If you weren't already exhausted by this genre from the podcast-wastelands, from the sub-sub-subreddit, and 2^n-chan, and Fox News, now is your chance to get an even more mega megadose of opines and chambered echoes.

Rhymes with "Parler shows us that we can all get along online."

At some point we're going to have to deal emotionally with the fact that we are polarising, not because of 'freedom of speech' (or putative threats to it,) but because of freedom of association --- a freedom that the Internet makes it far easier to indulge.

We are more different from one another now precisely because of Substack and its friends.

That might not even be a bad thing, in the long run, but on the other hand, there is not a-priori reason it would be a good thing, either.

All I can say with certainty is that recent events make me believe that there are diminishing returns and increasing risks associated with this tendency.

And I say this as a (relatively new, but nevertheless excited) substack writer. It's a great product, and it will help me grow my community. It will also help grow many others, including QAnon.