Hey shawn (nprofile…zjy9), you got me to make an substack account a while back to simplify the editing experience in nostria (nprofile…m0xe).
Now I opened it up again and I just realized it's a social media too? I had no idea.
Could you tell me a bit about it? I'm just looking at the content there and it appears to be insane amount of engagement, but then I look at comments and it's just a whole bunch of unrelated comments, different languages, etc?
The feeling I get is that it's thousands of bots creating fake comments (at least on some threads I opened)? Or is it really a massive social network by now?
Robert Reich, which just appeared in the feed. He got 1.4 million followers on X, 1.1 million on Substack.
His last post (cross-posting) has:
927 likes vs 327 likes (X)
229 reposts vs 129 reposts (X)
31 replies vs 42 replies (X)
Not that much difference really, but I would love to learn more about how Substack ended up where it is. I don't think Medium is even close to same engagement which have traditionally only had comments?
I made one comment back when I made the account on one article, and I got a reply that was very weird.
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2026-01-13 19:25:22 UTC
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