I hope it takes off. It's unfortunate that blogs have become completely supplanted by publishing on some platform the person doesn't own.
Someone on the fitness forum I was on said that if I started a Substack, he'd be the first subscriber (this, by the way, was due to a longish few posts on AI that people here would find very ho-hum, maybe totally wrong). Anyway, the flattery aside, I wanted to ask, why a Substack? Why not a "a newsletter" or "a blog"?
I was going to ask him, but before I could someone posted something about Gaza, America's "satanic parasites," the impending end of the West, his hope for "pax Sinica" and lots more diatribe. That pretty much ended that thread. They are still figuring out how forums work and don't work over there. So I never did get to ask. It was an interesting thread until then...