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One-stop-slop that is.

Dale Gribbel, savior of the sacred flame.

I was really surprised at good writing still coming from vice. Makes sense now that it was from 2020, and from one of the 404 founders.

Every executive team hates one thing : paying labor. The entire AI sales pitch is “if you pay us, you can stop paying people.”

Even if it’s not possible, they all want the same management dream, no matter the industry, so they will all push towards it.

Your gmail notification point doesn’t track, but its the most minimal point so i’ll drop it.

I dont think Substack is specially just a Nazi platform. I think they are Capitalists that will use any kind of speech to make money. While bootstrapping, they found a niche in leftist independent journalism. Now, they view far right hate as profitable, both directly with Nazi commentors and being paid large sums to enshittify the platform from far right figures.

They dont care about racism or hate because they are rich and it makes them money. That does make them bad people, no matter how many leftists they also profit from.

I absolutely expect they will follow a Twitter style path from here on out, with or without Musk at the helm. Once you let the Nazi’s into the bar, they take over by driving everyone else out. Substack has said “come on in!” so they will. Some leftist will remain for a while, but eventually the Nazis will be all that’s left.

I expect you make some kind of living off Substack? Maybe look into Ghost as an option. They take way, way less money even when fully hosted.

Are you even reading the comment you’re replying to? It doesn’t seem like it.

Gmail doesnt “push notifications” for anything besides receiving email. Recieving a spam messsage, i.e an interaction with a federated service that anyone can run, is not at all the same as a company’s app, that they full control, pushing a notification, that they fully control, from content on their site, that they full control. Comparing that to Gmail, which is in this case would be a neutral party to the content of the push notification, is not the same.

I very clearly pointed out that i expect the notification came from a computer fucking up. You should re-read the comment to make sure you understand it. I also made it very clear that if you have nazi shit on your platform, your computers may fuck up and push that that Nazi shit out to people. The best way to combat that is not having Nazi shit.

Either way, it’s good to see you accepting that “Substack welcomes Nazis” is accurate now. Maybe it wasn’t in 2023, the last time they made headlines for paying Nazis to post on their platform, but it is now. I expect with the very recent 100 million cash influx from far right Trump supporters, that isn’t going to change.

Maybe stop carrying so much water for a site that is clearly absolutely cool with Nazis?

Comparing a platform internal push alert system with a random spam email is asinine. This was the companies own system pushing nazi content they host to users, all with their own tools.

I have no idea what youre on about with the URL, but i absolutely accept that their notification system fucked up and mass spammed users with literal Nazi content they actively host on their platform. Machines break, computers are no exception.

The “actively hosting Nazi content” is the issue. Not hosting Nazis is actually a stunningly good way to prevent your internal tooling from spamming customers with Nazi shit. Its nearly flawless. The fact that Substack does not employ it is the issue.

Do check in and see if the two listed Nazi stacks get deleted. It would be a reasonable thing for Substack to do if they don’t want Nazis on their platform. If they don’t do it, I would expect that both of us will have our answer of what they want to host.

Your link is to your older comments, and claims they “kicked out the nazis” they had on their platform. So the nazis are all gone, huh?

Their systems just pushed a very racist notification from the nazis currently on their platform to users. The article also points out that one of the other nazis accounts is being pushed algorithmically to users via substacks “rising” tab, with the nazi account currently at number 46. That’s seperate from their “oops, all nazis” notifications issue. How is substack not a nazi platform when its still promoting and platforming nazis?

Also, they just took more funding from Marc Andeerssen in their most recent $100 million funding round 13 days ago, so your TL;DR is also all fucked up.

Not surprised Thiels/Musks paypal/venmo are onboard.

This is just an absurd attempt to derail arguments about fair taxation by waiving a red herring around about people being able to voluntarily increase their own taxes, as if asking for a fair system is the same as utterly destroying your own solvency.

They opened a restaurant yesterday. At 4:20 pm.

Yeah, a tesla restaurant. That’s the current distraction.