How are you liking Substack and the new Notes interface??? It feels so much like Twitter and is so seamlessly integrated with Substack that I'm crossing my fingers it grows past that vague threshold where it has 1) a big enough backlog of content and 2) a large enough userbase that it serves as an anchor platform for distribution and networking like Twitter used to be.
I feel like 1) is actually a really important one. Twitter is popular in part because so much weird stuff happens there that you can tell an entire story or write an article covering just tweets between users. But on a place like Mastodon or Notes, the backlog of content is mostly just people posting their own newsletters, so there's nothing to make people spend casual dead time with the platform without also expending labor to help build it.
How are you liking Substack and the new Notes interface??? It feels so much like Twitter and is so seamlessly integrated with Substack that I'm crossing my fingers it grows past that vague threshold where it has 1) a big enough backlog of content and 2) a large enough userbase that it serves as an anchor platform for distribution and networking like Twitter used to be.
I feel like 1) is actually a really important one. Twitter is popular in part because so much weird stuff happens there that you can tell an entire story or write an article covering just tweets between users. But on a place like Mastodon or Notes, the backlog of content is mostly just people posting their own newsletters, so there's nothing to make people spend casual dead time with the platform without also expending labor to help build it.
I just started trying Notes. Haven't used it enough to have a firm opinion, but so far my experience has been positive.