Casey Newton — Platformer is leaving Substack...

Looking forward to following Platformer on its new platform

12 січня Casey Newton

thanks Ravin!

12 січня Ravin Boodram

Good for you. This is the correct choice and I know it isn’t the easiest one. I am so glad that you are making it.

12 січня Casey Newton

Y'all do great work. We'll follow along wherever Platformer lands 👍

12 січня Casey Newton

thanks bill!

12 січня Bill Arceneaux (Mubi, in this economy!)

No prob. Your move pushed me to set up with micro.blog in a month (email lists can be imported after 30 days). I like their community standards and fediverse social integration. New domain, same newsletter blog name. February ⚜️🍿

12 січня Casey Newton

i am literally struggling through making my own website because i refuse to host my new blog on substack

good on platformer

12 січня Casey Newton

congrats!

12 січня Casey Newton

Thank you.

12 січня Casey Newton

The right choice.

Glad Substack walked back some of their Nazi coddling. But it is clear they need to do more.

12 січня Casey Newton

They have not. They deleted 5-6 substacks because of violations related to violent threats. They insisted that they will not be changing their "NAZIS WELCOME" policy.

They need to do a LOT, if they are to shun Nazis.

Starting with changing their policy on Nazis.

12 січня Dan Sandler

Lol, lmao Substack had official dropped the bag

12 січня Casey Newton

Intentionally coddled Nazis

12 січня Patrick "no kings"

THANK YOU!

12 січня Casey Newton

Bravo!

12 січня Casey Newton

thanks casey.

12 січня Casey Newton

Where are you moving to?

12 січня Casey Newton

Ghost but the URL will stay the same!

12 січня Matt Motyl

Good.

Really positively surprised by how many people actually are following through on moving out of that Nazi bar. 👍

12 січня Casey Newton

Agreed. Substack is designed to leverage the users that feel the least pain (white, cis, usually male) with success, so they have to think hard about losing that "easy" ramp up and dopamine drip of engagement and subscribers.

It's only if the big accounts foment change that it will help.

12 січня Thomas Fuchs 🔭🕹️

Thank you for making the right choice.

12 січня Casey Newton

Good on ya both.

12 січня Ed Zitron

Thank you Casey. May this spark a wave of other decent people leaving substack too.

12 січня Casey Newton

Hell yeah Casey!
Thank you so much, absolutely the right call

12 січня Casey Newton

Casey, I am grateful for the introspection and self-awareness in this post, as well as the clarity and tenor of your conclusions and commitments.

12 січня Casey Newton

thanks emily!

12 січня Emily Gorcenski

Thank you for this.

12 січня Casey Newton

Insert Morgan Freeman applauding dot gif.

12 січня Casey Newton

thanks for leading by example 🙏

12 січня Casey Newton

You are doing the right thing, will follow along to Ghost. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

12 січня Casey Newton

Good on ya!

12 січня Casey Newton

Hey man, thank you for your principled stances on this and Twitter. Very grateful for your leadership.

12 січня Casey Newton

thanks max

12 січня Max Berger

As someone who also made the move from Substack to Ghost, I was especially thankful for the section in which you sought the commitment from Ghost's co-founder about its content policies. When scouting, I figured this was the case but to have explicit confirmation is heartening to hear.

12 січня Casey Newton

good choice!

12 січня Casey Newton

You all made the right choice, thanks for that. I’m resubscribing

12 січня Casey Newton

What is going wrong with substack? I used to like them, years ago, lately they are going off road. Weird.

12 січня Casey Newton

I am a relatively new Substack user (reader), just settling in after leaving the X shitshow. Sigh. It’s incredibly annoying to have to constantly worry about this. But for people trying to find a stable place to do business, it’s very problematic.

12 січня

Substack was designed to offer a platform to journalists, writers…so they get paid for their work. Used to be right in the middle, like the political party we don’t have 😀 did not mean to go political, but they were filling the blank … unfortunately, not anymore

12 січня Feisty Kinglet

Atta boy

12 січня Casey Newton

thanks ben

12 січня Tim Onion

Thanks Casey, appreciate this and I hope the internet will find a way to build better models for writers, creative people, and journalists in the future. In the meantime, choices like this help

12 січня Casey Newton

thank you!

12 січня Margarita Noriega

I’m just some random trying to find 💛tweeps in the Great Explosion from Twitter.
I didn’t know all this about Substack; all I knew was that Dan Rather was there.
Thank you for taking the time and effort to educate, maybe not consumers like me, but other creators.
Good luck. May your new home be💵💵😘

12 січня Casey Newton

Digital high five

12 січня Casey Newton

GG

12 січня Casey Newton

well said, well done. 👍

12 січня Casey Newton

Thank you for this. You and Ryan Broderick both leaving will be a huge impetus for similar creators to leave and might actually cause the sea change needed to drive a meaningful user exodus from Substack.

12 січня Casey Newton

Is this cause @zitron.bsky.social was mean in their news letter

12 січня Casey Newton

What’s the new platform

12 січня Casey Newton

Ghost but will be at the same URL (platformer.news)

12 січня Gaurav Rawat

Ghost w0000t!🥳

12 січня Casey Newton

The right call. It sucks to be treated like a platform’s on call content moderators. Not civil society’s job, not journalists…

12 січня Casey Newton

Bravo! Wishing you every success possible. All it takes is a few good people to walk away from that which is obviously unacceptable for others less brave to follow suit.

12 січня Casey Newton

Thank you for doing the right thing.

12 січня Casey Newton

I was a free subscriber previously and finally plunked down real live money today ;) thanks and congratulations. Now, how do I get to your discord?

12 січня Casey Newton

Glad your organization made the right choice instead of the easy choice.

12 січня Casey Newton

You gave them every chance, literally led them to the "do the barest minimum of not evil" good on you

12 січня Casey Newton

I'm sorry, but not at all surprised, that you approached Substack in good faith, and they did not respond in kind. But thank you for the advocacy and pushing this as far as you did. Know that's not always a comfortable place for a journalist to be.

12 січня Casey Newton

Tell us the truth: you saved this until Thursday night because you knew it would make outstanding podcast content, right?

(Also 👏👏)

12 січня Casey Newton

Awesome. Fuck Nazis and fuck substack.

12 січня Casey Newton

Glad to see it and of course will follow to any new home!

12 січня Casey Newton

Bravo!

12 січня Casey Newton

Sad it had to come to this, but looking forward to your landing. Thanks for all the great reporting

12 січня Casey Newton

Way. To. GO! Thank you, Casey.

12 січня Casey Newton

Will you let us know when the move officially happens? I want to move my subscription to a paid tier, but I don’t want Substack to get any of my money.

12 січня Casey Newton

This is the right thing to do. Thank you for the integrity and balls to do this.

12 січня Casey Newton

Thanks Casey. I'll subscribe once you're on Ghost!

12 січня Casey Newton

I’m disappointed because I quite like Substack’s product. Disappointed in Substack. Thank you for sticking to your values. I hope the other publications I read follow suit.

12 січня Casey Newton

Great statement! While acknowledging that there were some valid concerns with how you initially communicated things and how the steps you took could be interpreted (as you mention), I think your handling of this has been great overall and I'm sorry for what must have been a great deal of stress!

12 січня Casey Newton

Thank you.

12 січня Casey Newton

Could you please explain more for those not in the know?

12 січня Casey Newton

Glad you're doing this. Looking forward to supporting you on your new platform!

12 січня Casey Newton

Thank you for being transparent throughout this the whole process.

12 січня Casey Newton

Will you still have an RSS feed?

12 січня Casey Newton

yup though need to figure out what it is

12 січня ekana stone

It's a way for apps to automatically find any new content

13 січня Casey Newton

Ghost gang 🤜

12 січня Casey Newton

yesssssss

15 квітня Joseph Cox

This is just superb writing. Thank you for your and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social’s work. I’m impressed.

12 січня Casey Newton

Hell yeah. Time to resubscribe, everyone!

12 січня Casey Newton

Are you going to unblock all the writers who criticized you for the "resolves the primary concern" wording you now admit was woefully wrong?

12 січня Casey Newton

Thank you for making the right choice. This will win me back.

12 січня Casey Newton

It's unlikely that I will join this.
Having been a subscriber for a few years, I value what Substack does.

It's a shame you don't see how important it is to the internet, and to helping reduce the over-capitalised nature of the web in 2024.

12 січня Casey Newton

Define hate.

12 січня Casey Newton

Proud of you for moving off the platform, I’ve started calling it “NaziNewsletters” (I know it’s not all nazis but this is my free speech, come at me stackbros).
Which now brings me to the business opportunity that is DomStack..

14 січня Casey Newton

Sign. And of course Substack just charged me for another month.

Will you get any of that money? If so I’ll keep it. But if you already canceled on the backend and will get none of it, I’ll ask for a refund.

I don’t want my money going to supporting Nazis or Nazi apologists. (Not you — Substack)

15 січня Casey Newton

yes we will — payments should all be sorted by tomorrow; we needed an extra day to port all the new subscribers from the weekend. thanks for your patient 🙏

15 січня Dan Sandler

Gotcha. I’ll keep it then. Looking forward to the new platform.

15 січня Casey Newton

yay!

15 січня Casey Newton

Ghost Is a great choice. Hope others creatore superstars will follow your track

15 січня Casey Newton