[–] warrenm 3y ago ↗ I think Substack is just the next on a long line of plogging sites (first heard that assigned to Medium in 2015 in an article on Wired)The only way to own your content is to, well... own your contentHost/publish it yourselfOr expect everyone else to profit from it [–] galaxyLogic 3y ago ↗ Well of course but you can benefit from having a publisher, instead of self-publishing. Does Substack take away your copyright? [–] warrenm 3y ago ↗ I don't know if they subsume/extend/alsoown your copyright - but by dint of publishing on someone else's platform, you're beholden (to some extent) to that other entity
[–] galaxyLogic 3y ago ↗ Well of course but you can benefit from having a publisher, instead of self-publishing. Does Substack take away your copyright? [–] warrenm 3y ago ↗ I don't know if they subsume/extend/alsoown your copyright - but by dint of publishing on someone else's platform, you're beholden (to some extent) to that other entity
[–] warrenm 3y ago ↗ I don't know if they subsume/extend/alsoown your copyright - but by dint of publishing on someone else's platform, you're beholden (to some extent) to that other entity
[–] gardenfelder 3y ago ↗ If it's a "trap", what are the alternatives? Others here suggest hosting your own, but nobody wants to lay out the whole story.Hosting your own means server costs and a lot more. Substack is taking care of that.It seems to me that those who want to use twitter (etc) as a platform to complain ought to be considerate enough to talk about the options. [–] for_i_in_range 3y ago ↗ I only tell subscribers to my paid physical monthly newsletter this type of info. Sorry. [–] DoItToMe81 3y ago ↗ Adequate servers for blogging can cost under 5 dollars a month. You're not exactly running heavy download servers here.
[–] for_i_in_range 3y ago ↗ I only tell subscribers to my paid physical monthly newsletter this type of info. Sorry.
[–] DoItToMe81 3y ago ↗ Adequate servers for blogging can cost under 5 dollars a month. You're not exactly running heavy download servers here.
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[ 6.3 ms ] story [ 30.3 ms ] threadThe only way to own your content is to, well... own your content
Host/publish it yourself
Or expect everyone else to profit from it
Hosting your own means server costs and a lot more. Substack is taking care of that.
It seems to me that those who want to use twitter (etc) as a platform to complain ought to be considerate enough to talk about the options.