Links are powerful — that's why Instagram and Twitter and Threads punish and limit them, and why Substack tries to take credit for them. And that's why "wherever you get your podcasts" is such a radical concept — like email, it's a medium that the tech tycoons don't, and can't, own. People can read your writing "wherever they get their email".
Anil Dash lays out the future of S*bst*ck https://www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/