Sub Pub is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I don’t fully agree with much as I didn’t fully agree with In general, I agree with more openness and less censorship. In other words, I believe that, in general, people should be free to publish what they want on Substack.
"I propose a “meta-Substack”: a place to discuss posts from any Substack newsletter" - this is kind of the Substack Writers Unite discord already. I mean, we don't specifically challenge each other to discuss and debate random Substacks (thought that might be cool) but we did just have a conversation about the Substack post that prompted yours.
I think if a discord or other site existed just to debate content on Substack, though, it would get heated and ugly within about 2 hours. I mean, a 20 second peek at the comments on the Substack leaders' post made my skin crawl and I had to walk away. I can just imagine what would happen if you turned all those people loose on a Discord together. I know I wouldn't stick around.
Was there a specific incident that led to them releasing this? This seems like such an unneeded self own if it isn’t reactionary.
"I propose a “meta-Substack”: a place to discuss posts from any Substack newsletter" - this is kind of the Substack Writers Unite discord already. I mean, we don't specifically challenge each other to discuss and debate random Substacks (thought that might be cool) but we did just have a conversation about the Substack post that prompted yours.
I think if a discord or other site existed just to debate content on Substack, though, it would get heated and ugly within about 2 hours. I mean, a 20 second peek at the comments on the Substack leaders' post made my skin crawl and I had to walk away. I can just imagine what would happen if you turned all those people loose on a Discord together. I know I wouldn't stick around.
Lyz in Men Yell at Me shared some interesting points relevant to this conversation here: https://lyz.substack.com/p/dingus-of-the-week-everyone-banning
In particular, she wrote:
In an interview on CNN, Nikole Hannah-Jones said, “A healthy society does not ban ideas, and it does not ban books.”
If your worldview is so fragile that it crumbles because someone talks about slavery and the reality of history? Your worldview is bad.