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Newsletter platform discussed in the context of leftist and liberal political writing, with debate over whether educated liberal writers are preferable to right-wing intellectuals.

Mentions (29)
"Instead we get Pheobe Bridgers (as a whole) and Laura Marling daring him to kill himself on her substack."
"I took huge UI inspirations from Substack, Arena, and letterboxd."
"It's so much better now that the worst excesses of leftist gender/race discourse are starting to die off. The writing is decent and sometimes even good, and the writers themselves seem interesting and well-read."
Went on shitlib Substack and it felt like a breath of fresh air · u/Tough-Lab825 · ↑313 · 2025-01-21
"i don't want to be anyones muse or martyr or Manic Pixie Pagan Tradwife with a substack."
"https://sohla.substack.com/p/sorry-about-your-cookies"
"He also told me about a friend he has who has a substack that's like if Delicious Tacos was a drug addled pick-up-artist who dressed like a steam-punk enthusiast and wrote about sleeping with a vomiting Thai ladyboy."
I met another racist dude off 4chan · Tossedoffsnark · ↑264 · 2024-01-21
"Curtis Yarvin on the other hand has does nothing but write screeds on Substack all day about how he has super special politics for a super special boy that you just wouldn't understand (lame, boring)"
anna and dasha cannot be trusted about the binary · u/snakeantlers · ↑208 · 2022-08-29
"This is the second time I've had a man publish a piece about how he's in love with me and I broke his heart for not feeling the same way. Article is a 25 minute read with intimate details about our dates, including saying he is in love with me, that I am the most beautiful woman he's ever met, and t"
Guy I dated for two months last year wrote a Substack article about me · u/Such-Worldliness-655 · ↑169 · 2026-01-03
"Substack is the best thing to happen to the internet recently. Feel like I'm getting back into reading interesting things online again - its full of cool writing, and for right now its free of all this mainstream media noise. all these bluecheck hall monitor losers trying to get Glenn and others kic"
Substack · u/Vrubel94 · ↑147 · 2021-03-20
"PS I wrote about this more on my Substack a little while ago if people want to read. Thanks!"
Movies, TV shows, and books about artistic failure · u/oxkondo · ↑142 · 2023-07-21
"Bisexual, sex-positive Jewess 🏳️‍🌈✡️ Subscribe to my Substack 📝"
Millennial New York Jewish girls' bios be like: · u/Elegant_Box_3806 · ↑131 · 2025-01-23
"Reddit, Twitter, the NYT comments sections, even your precious Freddie DeBoer Substacks or whatever --- these are Fat Man's Clubs of the mind."
"I mainly focused on the writings to actually look good in both desktop and mobile, taking inspiration from similar sites with refined UIs like Substack and mirror.xyz."
lit.salon (RS-coded goodreads) now has original writings feature <3 · u/lowiqmarkfisher · ↑106 · 2025-04-11
"why does "writing" as a vocation attract the people with the lowest aptitude for it? me after reading delicious tacos's substack……"
stop writing. like fr stopppp · u/[deleted] · ↑104 · 2023-06-12
"i tried checking it out to see what all the hubub was about, expecting to read some cool essays and see some nice art. alas, most of the essays are poorly crafted or dull, but the writers seems to think they are REALLY doing something. it is sickeningly earnest. like seeing a norwooding skinnyfat gu"
vibes of substack are awful · u/labia--majoras--mask · ↑90 · 2025-12-20
"I appreciate how Substack has made long-form blogging semi-cool again, but I resent a) the homogenous, "modern" interface and b) the push for monetization/subscribership out of the gate. Older blogging platforms like blogspot and tumblr allowed for more individuality, whereas Substack forces all use"
Substack has bad aesthetics and I don't like it · u/frogspotting · ↑83 · 2022-11-26
"But it genuinely is scary how these people interpret substack. They're all newsletter writers! There's an insane number of people explaining how they grew to x amount of subscribers, and were able to reach x dollars a month. It's glorified e-commerce."
holy shit, r/substack is bleak · u/thisismythirdburner · ↑55 · 2025-07-15
"After reading that tattletale Substack sperg's take on Luigi"
Mangione's Search for Agency · u/LANA_DEL_KARENINA · ↑41 · 2024-12-23
"Is substack's primary user demo made up of older people who are too tired or stressed out by the hyperspeed culture of modern social media sites like Twitter or insta? Are these people longing for old school forums or local news comments sections?"
Freddie Deboer comment section · u/bill_simmons_fetish · ↑39 · 2022-12-22
"Kelly Chapman, a culture writer for The Spectator, posted a beautiful response on her Substack, where she writes under the pseudonym Audrey Horne."
NYT Opinion: How Women Destroyed the West · u/OJ_Soprano · ↑35 · 2025-10-25
"From his self-published Substack: An anon source, but as a Norwegian myself this was an interesting read in light of Biden's previous threats against the pipelines."
Hersh claiming US and Norway bombed Nord Stream · u/[deleted] · ↑32 · 2023-02-10
"I wrote an essay on the theologies of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (free ofc)! its alsooo about other stuff, some of u may enjoy! <3 https://unluckyregina00.substack.com/p/tolstoy-or-dostoevsky-p1"
for russian lit fans: the theologies of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky · u/No_Departure3847 · ↑31 · 2024-08-01
"I want to start a Substack, so I started looking into the current newsletter landscape. I came across a series of newsletters titled 'people's princess', 'internet princess' and 'princess babygirl', each with thousands of followers. Those handles wouldn't surprise me on TikTok or Instagram, but I th"
What's the deal with Substack princesses? · mycatistheloveliest · ↑31 · 2024-09-16
"Substack completely baffles me and I have no idea who's worth reading/following."
Keeping your finger on the cultural pulse · u/IMOAcct · ↑31 · 2025-12-29
"I understand that the spiritual successor to this exists in Substack, but so many of those are imbued with the need to be deep, interesting, insightful, or well-written. So many of them reek of an aspiring journalism career and it ruins the vibe because the writers are never really that smart or asp"
When will the Blogspot era return · u/eodipamaas · ↑29 · 2023-11-10
"For one creating an account is an ordeal. It seems like Substack would rather you login each time with a confirmation email. Substack itself sends annoying ass emails much more frequently than any of the people I'm subscribed to. Once you get logged in the way they setup the website, as if it's some"
"I've been writing short stories on substack, which a few friends follow me on. I've realised it's very good for mind/body/spirit to have some sort of creative impulse. feels awesome."
what's everyone's creative outlet · u/Legitimate-Notice-84 · ↑27 · 2023-07-02
"Is substack's primary user demo made up of older people who are too tired or stressed out by the hyperspeed culture of modern social media sites like Twitter or insta?"
Freddie Deboer comment section · u/bill_simmons_fetish · ↑39 · 2022-12-22
"Substack, the iphone Couch app, subscribing to podcasts are all just ways of giving yourself homework. Delete and unsubscribe from all of them."
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