Substack, which still isn't profitable but has added 1M+ paid subscribers over the past year, is trying to become a primary way creators of all mediums get paid
The News — Seven years since its launch, the newsletter platform Substack has consolidated its dominance of the independent news business.
But is Substack still enthusiastically platforming literal Nazis? Because if it is (and it is), then who cares? — Who is still writing for Substack? Who is still reading anything written on it? [embedded post]
.@maxwelltani mustread on what is going on with Substack, which seems to have won its lane — newsletters — but needs to move into others to succeed as a business and sell to ... Stripe? https://www.semafor.com/...
🟡 NEW: Seven years since its launch, Substack has consolidated its dominance of the independent news business. Now, it's trying to position itself as something more, @maxwelltani reports. https://www.semafor.com/...