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[Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
Content creation has been gentrified.
There's no soul in what was once an artistic expression, a way of sharing new ideas.
Content is now a rehashing of those same ideas at scale without any creative flair whatsoever.
The intent is no longer to learn and grow, but to monetize.
We were promised a digital Renaissance.
Instead we got a digital garbage d
... See moreExpect enclosure; expect a few big winners; expect advertising, with all the attention-hacking that will demand. Expect, also, that writers will continue to mold their work to fit Substack’s particular ecology, rather than “merely” use the tools to pursue their independent visions and ambitions. We learned this about platforms a long time... See more