Didn’t get much feedback about my Substack blog post yesterday, so I started to doubt myself. I wrote it quickly and glossed over some details. But that’s how it is with blogs… Sometimes you put things out in the world and hardly anyone notices. That’s okay! Still worth it. On to the next post.

@manton welcome to my life 🤣 Doubt all the way, but I keep my motto from the very beginning: I mostly write to my blog because I enjoy it. But still… more engagement is more fun 😉

@hutaffe Yep, it’s valuable to me even if no one reads it. I think that’s something a lot of “new” bloggers have trouble with. And apparently even me, sometimes!

@manton Read it and found your thoughts interesting 👌

@leonardkoch Thanks!

@manton it was a reasonable position that aligns with my mental model. Notes does feel like they want to be able to provide that social graph-powered traffic/lead generation and that does mean “cloning” Twitter (I don’t really think it’s a clone but, potato/poh-ta-toe). The publishing and the traffic/lead generation probably need different rules/guidelines/standards.

@rcrackley Thanks! He linked to my recent post about Twitter.

@kyleford Thanks for reading!

@manton I also read and enjoyed your thoughts. It matters to me that you’re giving serious thought to these things. I personally feel that Substack’s CEO showed his true cluelessness in that Verge interview and it’s caused me to write off their service for the foreseeable future.

@manton I missed it yesterday, but a great post. It reminds me somewhat of Ben Thompson’s distinction between levels of The Stack (about half way down this post).

@manton but yeah, read it and… agree.

@manton It made me think about moderation, values, and the type of business you want to run. It’s best to be clear about that before you start it. I think you have done your homework so it shows.

@manton besides, your born it into existence. You don’t have to write it again. If it finds relevance it’s done and there for all to read.

@manton I read your post and agree with you but got massively distracted by listening to the full Decoder interview. What a wild one!

I think Substack sounds completely unprepared to moderate a social network. In the interview he mentions only having a few people in a role of moderation. Maybe in the past they leaned too hard on authors moderating the comments on their own posts…but that model won’t work for Note will it?

@manton missed this, but thanks for reminding. :) I agree that they should have thought it through before diving in. That interview just showed how unprepared Chris is. Content moderation is not a new thing - we’ve all seen how different approaches worked on different contexts, too - but looked like Chris just learned about it during the interview. LOL

@manton For me it is usually the opposite: having some audience is the news, most of the time it is just silence and me rambling

@manton it’s a great read! Worth amplifying ideas!

@manton You actually said it all and there's not much else to add.