The platforms want independent sites to feel like hard work. Every second you spend on an independent site is a second you're not generating data for them. The links get throttled. Then they tell you the open web is dead, while they're the ones smothering it.
If the public town square is broken, monitored by automated dragnets and toxic algorithmic amplification, then we must abandon it.
Written by Awen Null There is an entire economy built on the performance of support. You know it. You've seen it. The heart. The fire emoji. The "this is so important" reblog that costs nothing and changes nothing. The creator gets the notification, the platform gets
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We warned that when you build an architecture that mistakes politeness for morality, and algorithmically rewards the loudest voices, you create a permission structure for dehumanisation.
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By Lloyd Lewis for Art of FACELESS Let us stop pretending Substack is a creative revolution. Let us stop stroking the platform like a wounded pet. Let us call it what it is. Substack has become a playground for middle-class hobbyists who treat writing like a scented candle: a
Every artist we know lives in a constant state of contradiction — caring deeply while pretending not to. This equation doesn’t fix that, but it quantifies it. The “Right Number of Fucks” — Equation & Calculator Rate each factor on a 0–10 scale, then hit Calculate. Lower is “don’t
(Rarely But With Feeling) THE SEMI-COLON SPEAKS (RARELY, BUT WITH FEELING) – a poem in partial conclusions – I’m not a full stop; I’m not a comma; I’m the shadow that falls between thoughts; a boundary, blurred; the lingering tension in a well-read pause; you used to
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