Elon Musk is a Nazi. Full stop. Substack is supporting and endorsing a Nazi, days after that Nazi told the world he was proud to be a Nazi. Decent people have got to leave Substack. Please. I'll follow you wherever you go, and I'm happy to give you my money wherever you land. - ThreadSky

wilwheaton.net • 25 days ago

Elon Musk is a Nazi. Full stop. Substack is supporting and endorsing a Nazi, days after that Nazi told the world he was proud to be a Nazi.

Decent people have got to leave Substack. Please. I'll follow you wherever you go, and I'm happy to give you my money wherever you land.

Reposted from Ernie Smith

Substack comes out in favor of Elon. read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

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thomastgnome.bsky.social•25 days ago

The problem these brain-dead idiots don't get is that just because you have freedom of speech does not mean you can get away without potential repercussions.

We can only hope that they will eventually learn the errors of their ways.

palmiermatt.bsky.social•25 days ago

This is why I unsubscribed from the otherwise terrific newsletters from @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @timothysnyder.bsky.social

ggxer.com•25 days ago

I looked into setting up there a couple of years ago when I was entertaining restarting my blog. Saw the company I'd generally be keeping and hard passed.

Corn kernels in shit is still shit

sitdownaj.bsky.social•25 days ago

Mmhmm. I drew this yesterday

pyrrhios.bsky.social•25 days ago

Thanks, Wil. It's hilarious and gobsmacking they are trying to portray Leon as a champion of free speech.

slowwatermovement.bsky.social•25 days ago

we are quickly running out of other options. i just went to substack to get away from the other bad platforms.

genxer71.bsky.social•25 days ago

SAME! 😮‍💨

justinhughes54.com•24 days ago

So did I. I just want a shot at getting my writing in front of more eyeballs, but what platform isn’t bending the knee to fascism these days?!

ohheygreat.bsky.social•18 days ago

I moved off Substack, and this is my first post on my new site hosted by Ghost. Would love your help to get it out there.

https://www.leahreich.com/technology-is-not-the-answer/

thatbadgunky.bsky.social•21 days ago

As someone who has been told he should start food blogging, where would everyone recommend? I'm a complete newbie to all of this.

@wilwheaton.net are there any alternatives that you've found?

thatbadgunky.bsky.social•25 days ago

The fact that the report said "Elon Musk is a champion of free speech" in one sentence, then slightly further down talks about how he has silenced his opponents, just shows the mental gymnastics some people go through.

The hypocrisy is rife.

lmhinh.bsky.social•23 days ago

🎯

downsj.com•25 days ago

Holy shit, fuck Substack. Thanks for posting this, I hadn't seen it.

I rarely read anything on that platform, and I hadn't noticed this.

invadertenn.bsky.social•25 days ago

https://medium.com/defiant/punching-nazis-totally-works-fb9cb4952be3

wowt.news•25 days ago

Ghost proudly advertises a Nazi blog called Quillette. Beehiv is a favorite among crypto bros. WordPress is fine with climate change denialists and anti-vaxxers using their cloud platform. At this point, what isn’t a Nazi bar?

restlessalbatross.bsky.social•25 days ago

This is deeply disappointing! I haven't had a lot of exposure to substack's business practices before, but the little I'd seen I thought they were a pretty solid company. So much for that - another addition to the rapidly growing list of never-again companies.

Zero tolerance for fascism!

michele1l.bsky.social•25 days ago

Agreed, there are some good creators in a bad place.

erinsmommy1999.bsky.social•25 days ago

I don't think I follow anything there but if I did I would do the same.

commsdirector.bsky.social•23 days ago

@reckless.bsky.social nailed the Substack CEO on moderating racist content not that long ago. Was a remarkable cringe interview segment: https://www.tiktok.com/@decoderpod/video/7221602731998498094

americanmegalo.bsky.social•25 days ago

I’m a bit at a loss here because of my paid subscriptions. I am a nazi face puncher on GP

nerdymushroom.bsky.social•25 days ago

I first heard about substack in the same breath as them doing something shitty so I never joined. If people leave, I will be a brand new first time follower on a not substack site!

punmaster.bsky.social•21 days ago

I just deleted my Substack account, which unfortunately meant I also unsubscribed to @zeteo.com because they were based on Substack. I will still follow Zeteo here and would re-subscribe in a heartbeat if they were somewhere other than a platform that supports Elons madness.

fluffyfreak.bsky.social•25 days ago

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social please find an alternative to Substack for your posts

mrmartini.bsky.social•25 days ago

Substack loves them some heterodox.

susanhillwig.bsky.social•25 days ago

For fuck's sake, I started subscribing to Substacks to get away from FB, and now *this* comes up? I'm seriously considering building a box fort in my basement and sitting it in to get away from everything like I did when I was little.

genxer71.bsky.social•25 days ago

discrimens.bsky.social•25 days ago

Thanks for the heads up. I will be unsubscribing from all the accounts I follow and delete my account. I will never support a company that gives a platform to Nazis and those who seek to destroy our democracy.

wilwheaton.net•25 days ago

I'm going to send messages to all the people I subscribe to at Substack, telling them why I'm cancelling. I encourage you to do the same.

newsynonsense.bsky.social•25 days ago

I messaged the people I follow on discord.

eternalouroboros.bsky.social•25 days ago

I just did. My disgusting wasn't hidden.

goldengateblond.bsky.social•25 days ago

so many viable alternatives

madcat666.bsky.social•25 days ago

Done!

azizforamerica.com•25 days ago

If I move, will you follow me? 🙏

punmaster.bsky.social•21 days ago

Thanks Wil. I did exactly that with @zeteo.com before I deleted my Substack account. Resistance can look like many things. Having zero tolerance for nazi and fascist bullshit is one of them.

nellscovell.bsky.social•25 days ago

Wil do. And hi.

tripbreaker.bsky.social•25 days ago

I think Wil’s getting tired of packing and unpacking, town to town up and down the dial with this social media shit.

kptnd.bsky.social•23 days ago

nowiknow.com•25 days ago

I've had a fantastic experience with beehiiv, and if you want an intro to their leadership team to ease a transition, I can make that introduction.

nowiknow.com•25 days ago

I've been writing my newsletter for nearly 15 years, 14 on Mailchimp then 1 on beehiiv. Glad to talk to any creators who want to better understand the platform and the transition, too!

ishabluebell.bsky.social•24 days ago

Thing is, Substack also has free membership for writers who aren't using an email list. If you know of a comparable free host, I'd love to know.

nowiknow.com•24 days ago

Beehiiv may. They just introduced a new website builder. I use it for newsletters though, so I can't be sure personally.

ishabluebell.bsky.social•24 days ago

Sadly it's self-described as a newsletter platform.

punmaster.bsky.social•21 days ago

@zeteo.com maybe consider this alternative to Substack. If you move there instead of Substack I would re-subscribe and be happy to pay more than I was before.

nowiknow.com•21 days ago

If you're interested, here's a discount code URL https://www.beehiiv.com/?via=dan-lewis

nowiknow.com•25 days ago

Just sent you an email!

paganforge.bsky.social•23 days ago

I am so happy to see you here on BlueSky.

alexdowding.bsky.social•25 days ago

dsilsby.bsky.social•25 days ago

Already took care of it.

gordonwestdorp.bsky.social•25 days ago

A concentration camp to hold 30,000 migrants is going to be set up in Guantonamo.

oddmallpnw.bsky.social•25 days ago

Is there a word for when you feel like you did a good thing by never getting around to doing the thing that ended up rotten? Never did Substack, but now I feel whatever that is (Smug? Schadenfreude? Involuntarily Righteous???) but HOORAY I'M ON THE RIGHT SIDE BY DEFAULT YAAAAY!!!

erinsmommy1999.bsky.social•25 days ago

You and me both! Woohoo?

justadamscott.me•25 days ago

Glad I never started a substack! I would be out!

manticorefalco.bsky.social•25 days ago

I couldn't read past the effusive praise of Musk as a proponent of free speech, but thanks for the heads up Wil. I've reskeeted, because this is disgusting on Substack's part.

genxer71.bsky.social•25 days ago

🤬

bamoku.bsky.social•25 days ago

Someone please get James Fell off Substack and Facebook, and get him on more respectable platforms.

timbaker.bsky.social•25 days ago

I’m surprised they even felt the need to write this in the first place. What a horrible business decision. There is literally no upside unless they feel the Nazi incel audience on Twitter is an untapped market.

wonkish.bsky.social•25 days ago

Unfortunately, funding Nazis has explicitly been Substack's policy for years now.

If folks want an alternative, Ghost seems to be well-liked, and is what @caseynewton.bsky.social moved Platformer to when they made it clear they were gonna keep funding said Nazis:

https://ghost.org/docs/migration/substack/

lori.bsky.social•25 days ago

Thank you @wilwheaton.net for speaking up and out about this. #nazipunksfuckoff

woodylabounty.bsky.social•25 days ago

I use @ghost and it’s a great option separated from the big baddies. Easy to use too!

izzy90265.bsky.social•23 days ago

😡

nogawar.bsky.social•25 days ago

They don't make yeeting your account very easy.

mariedanj.bsky.social•25 days ago

I did through my navigator, not the app.

littlemsrob.bsky.social•25 days ago

I was able to delete easily but I barely joined.

bookgrump.bsky.social•24 days ago

Another app into the dustbin!

clipper.craves.pizza•25 days ago

I know https://philplait.bsky.social uses @beehiiv.com as an alternative to Substack

americanmegalo.bsky.social•25 days ago

Lots of my friends do

greatscottict.bsky.social•25 days ago

These people don’t understand that “freedom of speech” is not freedom from consequences.

actualdeity.bsky.social•25 days ago

His own family thinks he's a nazi. If the people in your life won't support you, why are random assholes on the internet?

g33ktress.bsky.social•25 days ago

Well that lasted about a week. I’ll just go copy out the one post I wrote and set fire to the remains.

ericorbit.com•25 days ago

fuck them. try Medium perhaps?

tsmith81.bsky.social•25 days ago

Thank you for your moral clarity 🙏🏼 the false moral “free speech” panic has been abusing the 1A to proliferate hate speech, for decades. Too many hacks have made careers out of that malicious nonsense.

mo-being.bsky.social•25 days ago

@andrewbutters.bsky.social @rchains.bsky.social @fathernathan.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Please consider an alternative to #substack like beehiiv, and someone let James Fell know too. Thanks!

andrewbutters.bsky.social•23 days ago

Well, fuck. The pedestal they put Musk on is gross.

aspiring-geek83.bsky.social•25 days ago

@rbreich.bsky.social , @neurorebel.bsky.social

aspiring-geek83.bsky.social•25 days ago

Ah ffs

tom43.bsky.social•25 days ago

I deleted my account. Let them recruit Nazis.

dayas.bsky.social•25 days ago

justinhughes54.com•24 days ago

Dang it! It looked like such a good option for trying to build my own thing there to get my writing in front of more eyeballs. But I can’t support that, or their praise of Elon and Zucc supporting free speech when they do the precise opposite of that. Are there any decent platforms left?

shibbard.bsky.social•25 days ago

lajamnikita.bsky.social•24 days ago

So is Zuckerberg. I left FB over a week ago.

lisaannbrown.bsky.social•24 days ago

Please tell me WordPress is safe.

tamara6146.bsky.social•25 days ago

Since there is now total freedom of speech, let's all go to their rally and yell FIRE. We can say anything now, even if it hurts other people... SMH. These people have no idea what being an American is.

hokubean.bsky.social•24 days ago

Right as I downloaded it to try. Welp, nothing lost I suppose! Thanks for the info 🔥

lucyrosef.bsky.social•25 days ago

@rccola668.bsky.social - FYI. What will be left soon? Google maps is renaming the Gulf, so I need a new maps app, too.

rccola668.bsky.social•25 days ago

At least the AP will still call it by its proper name of Gulf of Mexico even after the maps have changed. Sadly though it seems only another president will be able to make it right.

grimmben.bsky.social•25 days ago

flukestarbucker.bsky.social•25 days ago

I saw a priest today give a Nazi Salute and the crowd cheered.

solzyatthemovies.com•25 days ago

I've moved my pubs off Substack but have to format a few articles before I can delete them altogether.

hlee11.bsky.social•25 days ago

I was never on substack myself and never will be. I am leaving all platforms that support this grossness!

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