Question for something I’m writing: would it be possible for Substack to make substack Notes (its twitter like feature within the Substack app) part of the fediverse?
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Jasper Vinkenvleugelreplied to Taylor Lorenz last edited by
@taylorlorenz probably, but as they’re a nazi-accepting platform, they’d probably get defederated by a whole lot of servers rather fast, so there might not be much of a point.
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@taylorlorenz Definitely possible, but would require substantial engineering investment, so not that cheap.
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Taylor Lorenzreplied to Jasper Vinkenvleugel last edited by
@jvnknvlgl Ghost also accepts nazis, I realize they’re not part of the fediverse but I struggle to find a single publishing tool that doesn’t allow allow reprehensible people to publish.
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Jasper Vinkenvleugelreplied to Taylor Lorenz last edited by
@taylorlorenz do they? I hadn’t seen anything about that yet.
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Taylor Lorenzreplied to Jasper Vinkenvleugel last edited by
@jvnknvlgl they do! They have less moderation than Substack but it was never a viral headline. I’m not defending it or saying “well this platform is also bad so it’s ok for Substack to do xyz” just saying it’s a broader systemic issue with these email newsletter platforms and publishing tools that don’t want to get into the content moderation business
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@taylorlorenz @jvnknvlgl Taylor, I've seen you share this claim across multiple platforms and I'm honestly not sure where it's coming from.
As I've mentioned each time someone tags me, I'm happy to chat with you directly about how Ghost works and any of these issues if that would be helpful.
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@taylorlorenz I pitched the idea to their CEO right before they launched Notes, but seemingly unsuccessfully. A few days later there was the catastrophic interview with @reckless1280 that ensured I never followed up on it. But technically of course it's totally feasible.
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@johnonolan @jvnknvlgl hi!! Omg I have never seen your replies I am sorry, I would have definitely responded!! I would love to chat, and not trying to hate on ghost btw. As I understand Quilette is on Ghost and you guys don’t do content moderation. But I wasn’t trying to hate on anyone and I just think that a lot of these convos about publishing tools are derailed by what ppl read in headlines. I’m on [email protected] if u ever have a few min to chat I’d love to connect
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@taylorlorenz They had the option when they built it, they even reached out to folks about it, and actively decided not to do it. It's not going to happen, unfortunately.
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@taylorlorenz @jvnknvlgl no problem
I’ll drop you an email
