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@Cedar
Oh my. I think I could probably write a short book on the topic, but I don't wanna ("the art must have some purpose other than itself, or it collapses into infinite recursion").

(the topic being how the internet is getting worse, and what a good website looks like)

That said, I dislike this change in particular because

1. substack is slow compared to wordpress and other platforms (with a bunch of chickenshit minimalism)
2. when I wget a substack the result is unusable

@niplav what is the alternative?

Any opinions on write.as?

@Cedar No opinion on write.as

My approach is "ignore newsletters and try to build a long site", but I agree that's not useful to most other people who want to live off what they do.

(*not* Hanson though. He should be writing a long site à la Gwern. he's a tenured professor, and I think he made the switch bc substack is trendy.)

I think I'll half-heartedly try long site+patreon, fail, and then go work a normal job and work on the site during part of my free time.