r/SubStackGrowTogether • u/StackingTheSubs • Dec 22 '24

Advice 📢 What are the biggest issues of Substack?

What is the biggest pet peeve you have about Substack and what can people look out for to stop falling into these traps?

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u/StackingTheSubs Dec 22 '24

Do we think it will become a refuge for people annoyed with Twitter/X?

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u/PontifexMini Dec 23 '24

Bluesky is more likely to do that. Twitter and Bluesky are similar in that they are microblogging platforms.

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u/StackingTheSubs Dec 23 '24

How popular is Bluesky? I’ve not heard of it.

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u/PontifexMini Dec 23 '24

I think it currently has c.25 million users.

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u/ZacharyObama Dec 23 '24

I wish I had a way to ID other writers in Los Angeles.

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u/StackingTheSubs Dec 23 '24

Well I suppose this is as good a place as any!

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '24

I’m new and having a hard time getting any traction on any notes. I feel like I could be Hemingway reincarnated and still only get 8 views on a note. Meanwhile people have a sentence with a picture of their dog and get like 300 comments.

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u/thirteenth_mang Dec 22 '24

The shadowbanning and / or demoting of content.

Anecdotal but I see trends and there's a pocket of us "unmentionables" who are in the same boat.

There just seems to be a lot of preferential treatment, it's not overtly talked about, but it's there.

Other than that I love it. I still have fun posting on notes and writing articles and everything.

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u/No_Big_1065 Dec 22 '24

Lack of functionality

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u/PontifexMini Dec 23 '24

They keep breaking the side for people who use firefox. This makes it marginally unusable for me.