Substack

A Defence of Substack

Initially I thought Wired’s article ‘Substack Is Now a Playground for the Deplatformed’ was going to be another hit piece at a non-mainstream platform that happens to be less moderated than social media. It poses instead the question ‘The company’s CEO says the old way of social media is broken—but is his alternative much different?’ This is actually a good question, and I think the answer is yes - Substack is demonstrably better than social media for articulating one’s ideas and opinions.