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points by paulpauper 2 days ago | 0 comments
I said "except for only the top." With 50k subscribers, presumably this is in the top tier. Similar to medium, the average person who creates a substack blog has to get all the traffic on their own, substakc does not help .
[–] aquentinn 1 day ago
Why do they host it on there then, can't they just get a domain and own their data/content?
[–] ghaff 1 day ago
Some short answers are ease and discoverability. I use Blogger myself after fiddling around some mostly because it was easier (and a bit cheaper) than setting up and hosting something myself.
[–] paulpauper 1 day ago
It's a blogging platform built around an app , which is like a quasi-social network in its own right.