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Free Speech Platform Is Freedom to Read, Learn and Tgink
Did you ever see a T-shirt emblazoned with the words: “Think. It’s Not Illegal…Yet”?
I remember the first time I saw that and my thought was “Gee, that’s an overreach”. But my second thought was ”Maybe not…Remember the book 1984…Remember the book Fahrenheit 451?” Do high school and college students even read those anymore? Were they banned?
I’m new to Sub-Stack. I’d heard about it for several years but I am a satisfied reader, happy I took the plunge and signed up for a few free subscriptions after hearing a commentator on a news channel. And what’s so wrong about “talking heads” anyway? I say they are “thinking heads”! I even pay for a couple subscriptions because I want to support these diverse writers who think independently and aren’t dependent on a mega-corporation owned by an authoritarian billionaire. Try it! It’s not illegal yet! It’s uncensored thinking that’s written and updated often — you don’t have to wait for the book.Show lessMona Ukulele
A few criticisms
Please stop the app from closing the articles I’m reading when I return to my home screen or change apps briefly, it’s incredibly annoying. There is no reading history so I have to find it manually each time, it makes me want to use the web app instead. Also, it’s too pricy to subscribe to more than one or two people, maybe a subscription for all like Apple News would be better.Show lesskonannnnn--
Intelligent writing for intelligent readers!
Stacks and the Financial Times online are my two favourite places to read thought provoking pieces of writing that are balanced both in their political perspectives and their evaluation of the world we live in. Such places are needed in the modern world so much, but are unfortunately rare given the modern tendency to polarisation. Keep up the good work!
Martyn Cooper, retired academic, formerly of the Open University, and the University of Reading both in the UK.Show lessMartynCooper
Substack is the greatest publishing platform… but
I truly love Substack. It has been a great platform and really helped me grow but this app… Please for the love will you guys please add the ability to write and publish and interact in a more cohesive fluid and easily interactive way I feel like the app is just utterly useless at the moment. I want and I’m looking for something similar but more beside of or a kin to what discord has done in the voice and video communications department, and community building. I hope that Substack one day adds the ability to stream live publish more fluently on mobile ads more features, and improves layouts templates and customize ability. I truly believe in Substack as a viable and truly revolutionary platform as opposed to having 25 or 30 other social media websites that you have to constantly post to for algorithmic likes. Please get to work on this app. It is nearing the middle of 2024. You have a great great possibility to be the it platform.Show lessBryanDesigns
really hard to find the paid subscription area & it’s prices
a lot of the publications say “paid only” but then there’s no option to click to pay! & even after subscribing i have to read the “subscribe” nonsense text when i open to read a paid post!goldenviking
As usual
Tom good to see you expressing yourself. In California they invented the word yes and abolished the word no above all in so many parental situations. There is no such thing as a point of no return and as California distinguishes itself in being among the first to extinguish itself. After it crashes and burns it will rise again as the phoenix did from the ashes. We seem to always need to learn the hard way. Germany crashed and burned after two world wars today they accomplished all their war dreams in peace. We are like children putting our hand int9 the fire until we finally learn.
On a more delightful folic we our on our last day 9f 15 days in Portugal a real little jewel of a country. Back to Italy tomorrow for more fun and games still time to join us.Show lessrobert j.s.
A Good Year and other things
You know (Polis) how I feel about A Good Year, and my singular inability to put words together in the way you have done and do is the very reason my own attempts at authorship have stalled, died and been buried in the cess pit of lost dreams.
There are a few books I have read and enjoyed as much as your twelve days of Christmas folklore tale. They would be Christ Stopped At Eboli, The Name of the Rose, The Magus (although that was so long ago I may be misremembering), and just to prove I’m as shallow as a pond evaporating in the desert, DP Clarence’s The Paper Boys, which I galloped through with the alacrity of a frisky colt put out to grass.
I have recently bought Disbanded Kingdom and will read that when it comes to the top of pile. And what a pile it is. I recently discovered a perfectly apt word, from those masters of apt words, the Japanese. It is Tsundoku - the phenomenon of acquiring books. Mine have become a fortress needing a literary Joshua to bring the walls tumbling down! Oh biblical bandsman come blow your horn!Show lessmujisan
Wellington Times -
Simon thinks that Substack is a great writing app😆Saul Salami
Intuitive and simple to use
Clear layout and appreciate how it doesn’t force lots of recommendations on me and I can curate my own reading list. Smooth onboarding experience and easy to customise notifications. The only design tweak I would have is for the list of subscriptions to be easier to sort and filter depending on my interests and time of day. More notification customisation could also be a plus, only notifying me for specific authors. This is all within the context of wanting to enjoy intentional reading and minimise distraction.Show lessmjlake09
Broken hearts
Hard to navigate our broken hearts at present. Love your beautiful piece.i cannot put down your selection book The covenant of water. Thank you for making me think.lil from down under
