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ryansingel

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Building Outpost.pub to help build an indie publishing ecosystem. Also Contextly, Stanford and formerly journalist at Wired.

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If you publish via #Substack and are looking to move to an indie platform, our publishers cooperative Outpost.pub can help.

We help power sites like 404 Media, Tangle, and The Lever.

We support sites using Ghost, an open source CMS.

Drop a note at support@outpost.pub for details

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Also in this issue: an update on the Substack / Nazi situation. We're meeting with the company this week in hopes Substack will remove all pro-Nazi material under its existing anti-hate policies. If it chooses not to, Platformer will move off Substack https://www.platformer.news/p/openais-news-blues)

ryansingel,
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@caseynewton
Happy to talk about a move to Ghost if that combo doesn't work out

ryansingel,
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@caseynewton
No I run Outpost.pub, a service that does power services for sites running Ghost. Most of our clients use Ghost Pro for hosting.

We can move you over and build you a custom website for free and I can nudge concierge

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was helpful enough to come up with some catchy quotes to share from my most recent newsletter

ryansingel,
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@molly0xfff

@lisamelton

Make your way to Ghost. Outpost will build you a custom site and migrate you for free.

Join the independent world free from VC incentives.

ryansingel, to random
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Friends don't let friends publish via Substack, which defends hosts Nazis and hate dealers

Lots of options:

Ghost (open source): self hosted or via Ghost(Pro) is the gold standard. The WordPress of membership-driven publishing. The co-op I founded, Outpost, adds power features for serious pubs.

Buttondown - Indie and great for smaller newsletters

Beehiiv - VC-funded, all-in-one. Beware VC incentives.

Patreon - don't do it. It's a trap

WordPress - Not a good idea. Spaghetti of plugins

ernie, to random
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Please use another platform. I do not want to give these people money. https://substack.com/@hamish/note/c-45811343

ryansingel,
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@ernie
I'll also "note" that this reply comes via their proprietary short messaging/social service that was built as s moat to keep writers stuck there.

ryansingel, to random
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My non tech savvy neighbor has his dell get fried and it was too old to be worth repairing. He replaced it with some new HP computer and printer.

He thought would make setup easy.

Friends, it was not. Pretty sure I turned down at least 10 SaaS offers and had to create a new email address just to get past the Microsoft registration screen.

I couldn't quite make him understand too that he's going to have to pay 70 bucks a year to use Microsoft word.

I feel like throwing some rocks right now

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At the radiology clinic in Kaiser in Oakland. Only one tech because all the rest are sick. Staff not masking. Patients, including those clearly sick and coughing, not masking either.

Love being "post-pandemic".

Even if you don't wear a mask anywhere else, my god, put one on in a hospital full of sick people.

parismarx, to tech
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I signed an open letter demanding answers from Substack leadership on why they’re platforming and monetizing Nazis, white nationalists, and other far-right figures.

This isn’t free speech. It’s hate speech.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/substackers-against-nazis

ryansingel,
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@parismarx
@erlend

The power move is to get off a platform funded by Marc Andreesen.

If you want to move to something open-source like Ghost (a non-profit), the publishers cooperative I run can help.

You gain freedom and power, and stop paying 10% to folks that coddle Nazis.

Ask 404 Media how it's treating them

ernie, to random
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All your favorite writers think Substack should stop platforming Nazis. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-IFF6pyxKkgG3CWuyNmZVE8L1EL6Khxo3QPAqrHOTaw/edit

ryansingel,
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@ernie
It should but maybe these writers should use a different platform?

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Should I write something called "Against Catastrophizing" or is that just asking for trouble?

ryansingel,
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@quinn If you write that and people believe you and then they don’t do the thing because you told them not to worry about the bad thing, and then worst thing actually happens and then you are to blame for the entire book of Revelation

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For your Tankie friends out there trying to tell you that Kissinger was right about Ukraine vs Russia or "negotiating" an end to the Russian invasion, a reminder of what that war criminal said in 2014 about Ukraine wanting an independent, non-corrupt government free of Putin.

"DER SPIEGEL: But we cannot tell the Ukrainians that they are not free to decide their own future.

Kissinger: Why not?"

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-henry-kissinger-on-state-of-global-politics-a-1002073.html

Slava Ukraine

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The great Spencer Ackerman on the death of the ghoul Kissinger and the political class that embraced him

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

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Anyone in the Bay Area have a good recommendation for an accountant for a small business and possibly personal as well? Remote might work too

Tired of doing taxes myself

ryansingel, to OpenAI
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#openai #SamAltman

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In brutally challenging economic times, I’m left wondering:

why would anyone choose to invest their hard-earned money in my work when they’re grappling with their own financial survival?

https://www.theindex.media/p/how-does-writing-survive-in-a-down

ryansingel,
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@taatm

@Daojoan @glennf

As someone who helps membership-driven publishers, I want to say that "just" is hiding a lot of work here.

We do have new tech that makes this easier and a culture shift towards subscribing/patronage.

But it's hard. It's a grind. Not all writers want or have the time/skills to run a small business and do marketing.

A lot of smart talented writers are simply out of the biz now.

I love a lot about this new world, but I'm also sad that we lost so many good outlets

ryansingel,
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@Daojoan
Yes but writers like you provide sustenance.

This is a lovely sentence explaining just that.

"The adventure is in finding those who understand that even when wallets are thin, investing in humanity is not a luxury but a nourishment for the soul."

ernie, to random
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Why is a webcam company texting me to inform me they have a new webcam

ryansingel,
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@ernie
They should video call you

ryansingel, to random
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Okay handy people. How do I replace this lightbulb?

Both correct and wildly dangerous suggestions welcome.

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I talked to National Journal about the upcoming FCC move to restore and oversight over the companies we pay to get online.

“This is a restoration of the FCC’s authority to oversee … the most important communication network ever invented,” said Ryan Singel, an open-internet fellow at Stanford Law School. “What happened in 2017 … would be like the [Food and Drug Administration] saying it had no authority over drugs.”

https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/723252/the-fcc-voted-to-reimplement-net-neutrality-now-comes-the-hard-part/?unlock=569B52WRNGIDXUUH

ben, to random
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I feel like we’re missing a really good software engineering for newsrooms blog or newsletter. There’s some product writing but not much around the actual tech. What should I be reading?

ryansingel,
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@ben
I wanna read this too

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Twelve CODEPINK members, including 29-year U.S. Army veteran and former diplomat Col. Ann Wright and peace activist David Barrows, were arrested for calling for ceasefire during US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's testimony today.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protesters-disrupt-senate-aid-hearing-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-speaks/

ryansingel,
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@seachanger
Even Putin apologists are occasionally right

ryansingel, to random
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The Dutch are using AI to street shame the rest of the world

https://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/

Here's a stretch of Telegraph in Oakland that's perfect for getting that treatment

Try it yourself

ryansingel,
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@robpegoraro
Right? Also make me top damn sad at how easy so much of this would be

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The FCC voted today to start the process of restoring federal broadband oversight and .

This undoes the damage of the Trump FCC under Ajit Pai, which declared that the FCC had no authority over broadband.

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/10/fcc-starts-process-bring-back-common-sense-net-neutrality-protections-and-broadband

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