Rita, antifascist 🏴🦯🦯🦯 on Nostr: “my reasons for staying on substack are complicated and unlikely to address your ...

“my reasons for staying on substack are complicated and unlikely to address your concerns, but: I have found that when we ask platforms to develop codes of conduct and deplatform the rightwing, it is adult content creators and anarchists who find themselves deplatformed and demonetized.

When people pushed Patreon to ban Nazis, it led to several prominent anarchist projects losing their funding. I don't trust tech companies to be the arbiters of speech.

I'm bothered by Substack's platforming of fascists, but I think the majority of its top political newsletters are left-leaning.

It's a funding and dissemination structure for independent writing, and it's an effective one. The main alternative people suggest, Ghost, doesn't have content restrictions either it appears and also provides a platform to anyone willing to use its software.

Meta also does active harm and its owner eats dinner with Trump, but I continue to use Instagram to reach people with ideas and Facebook Marketplace to buy weird old junk off strangers in Appalachia.” ~ Margaret Killjoy