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Most of them change their minds when they realize their customers--viewers, subscribers, advertisers--don't want to see all legal speech.

It's amusing that Musk's incentive appears to be fear of what his viewers will see--namely, competitive services they might consider using instead of Twitter.

I do think that's fairly different than the incentives for Facebook and Reddit.

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Substack is not a competitor to Twitter. Two completely different use cases. You can use Twitter to drive traffic to your substack. Doesn’t really work the other way around imho.

Elon's decision is dumb, but SubStack is expanding it's use case:

https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes

This is likely a bigger threat to Twitter than Mastodon is. Well played Substack.

I can't see them gaining traction. As one billionaire[1] opined:

> you can totally delete things from the Internet – that works perfectly and doesn’t draw attention to whatever you were trying to hide

1: https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1644174878382215170#m

I don't understand what you mean. What does his ironic tweet have to do with you claiming it's unlikely they gain traction?

The claim might be ironic.

Now that you mention it, that makes sense.

If that were true, Mastodon wouldn't have been banned first ;)

This Substack feature was introduced 3 days ago.

Twitter is looking to offer subscription services, paid tweets, and longform content. Substack is a direct competitor in that regard.

Twitter owned a direct Substack competitor (Revue) - and Musk shut it down.

Probably to integrate it directly. Doesn't make sense to continue operating a competing service; that's only some idiocy Google would do.

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