Discussion

• @reckless1280 Nilay Patel on threads

  Proud of @crumbler and @reporterzoe for doing the right thing, and doing it with rigor and care

• @mossbergwalt Walt Mossberg on threads

  Huge praise for @crumbler for his decision to move his excellent newsletter, Platformer, off of Substack after the hosting company wouldn't commit to proactively remove Nazi publications.  Platformer, a regular read for me, will continue on another hosting company, Ghost.

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on threads

  I would mind Substack deciding that it won't kick off Nazis rather less if it hadn't spent the last couple of years sanctimoniously lecturing of us all about how it would never ever have these problems because advertising and something called ‘Algorithms’ are the only possible ca…

• @moskov Dustin Moskovitz on threads

  This is very rude to folks who met their wives on nazi substacks

• @jeffjarvis Jeff Jarvis on threads

  @crumbler has brought admirable leadership to holding @SubstackInc accountable for its moral failings. https://www.platformer.news/ ...

• @pkedrosky Paul Kedrosky on threads

  Leaving one's Substack seems to be the new starting one's Substack, is the new leaving Twitter.  It's so hard to keep track of these things.

• @alexkantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on threads

  “We didn't ask Substack to solve racism.  We asked it to give us an easy, low-drama place to do business, and to commit to not funding and accelerating the growth of hate movements.  Ultimately we did not get either.”  Substack's enrolled all its writers in the culture war, wheth…

• @semaforben Ben Smith on threads

  Feels likelier than ever that Ghost, nonprofit with wonderful publishing tech and no aspirations to be a social network, will be a real winner here https://substack.com/...

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on threads

  I applaud @crumbler for doing the right thing here and leaving Substack, and his piece as to why he is doing so is a comprehensive explanation of his reasoning in doing so, and why he chose Ghost. https://www.platformer.news/ ...

• @crumbler Casey Newton on threads

  Ghost offers a free concierge service that is helping us transfer our subs — worth looking into https://ghost.org/...

• @crumbler Casey Newton on threads

  Obviously this is painful (I met my wife there)

• @crumbler Casey Newton on threads

  Platformer is leaving Substack https://www.platformer.news/ ...

• @caseynewton@mastodon.social Casey Newton on mastodon

  Platformer is leaving Substack https://www.platformer.news/ ...  [image]

• @alexcox@mastodon.social Alex Cox on mastodon

  This is how you write about leaving a platform without the reactionary moral superiority that mirrors so much right wing posturing: https://www.platformer.news/ ...

• @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social Taylor Lorenz on mastodon

  Newton stressed that it wasn't simply a handful of Nazi newsletters that made him leave.  Platfomer's analysis found dozens of far right publications advocating for the “great replacement” conspiracy theory and other violent ideologies. …

• @dangillmor@mastodon.social Dan Gillmor on mastodon

  Congratulations to @caseynewton and his team for their honorable decision to leave Substack.  —  They are not just doing the right thing.  They are demonstrating moral leadership in a field — journalism — that desperately needs more of it.  —  https://www.platformer.news/ ...

• @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social Taylor Lorenz on mastodon

  NEWS: One of Substack's most prominent writers is abandoning the platform over its decision not to moderate praise for Nazis and pro-Holocaust material. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social Jeff Jarvis on mastodon

  @caseynewton has brought admirable leadership to holding @SubstackInc accountable for its moral failings.  —  https://www.platformer.news/ ...

• @willoremus@mastodon.social Will Oremus on mastodon

  New: Casey Newton's Platformer is leaving Substack, suggesting its recent move to ban some accounts has failed to quell a writer revolt over its tolerance of extremist content. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @sallyprovan.bsky.social @sallyprovan.bsky.social on bluesky

  “Platformer Ghosts Substack” is there for the taking [embedded post]

• @dnas.is @dnas.is on bluesky

  These publications could have done this months ago.  The Nazi problem didn't pop up overnight.  [embedded post]

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  Reading about Platformer leaving Substack after sending the company examples of Nazis hosted on the service and the company tried to discredit them about making a mountain out of a molehill. So odd to see Substack ban porn yet go to the mat for Nazis. https://www.platformer.news/…

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  New: Casey Newton's Platformer is leaving Substack, suggesting its recent move to ban some accounts has failed to quell a writer revolt over its tolerance of extremist content. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... w/ @TaylorLorenz

• @molly0xfff Molly White on x

  There goes Casey Newton with Platformer, one of Substack's largest newsletters 👋 https://www.platformer.news/ ...